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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 紳士藏品
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A RARE PAIR OF IMPERIAL GILT-BRONZE AND
JADE-INSET LANTERNS
Qianlong
Each elaborately reticulated in the form of a moonflask, rising from a high
stepped spreading foot to a waisted flaring rim, set to each side with
a spinach-green jade panel, variously incised and gilt with a landscape
encircling the ‘Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove’, other mountainous
landscapes and an Imperial inscription, framed by meticulously
decorated gilt-bronze borders of floral scrolls with finely chased details
in openwork, all below a ruyi-head collar at the rim and above a key-fret
border at the foot, the interior lined with red silk, wood stands.
30.6cm (12 1/16in) high (4).

HK$400,000 - 600,000
US$51,000 - 77,000

清乾隆 銅鎏金鏨花嵌碧玉吊燈一對

Provenance:
Bluett & Sons, Ltd., London
An English private collection, acquired from the above on
20 December 1955, and thence by descent

來源：
倫敦古董商Bluett & Sons, Ltd.
英國私人收藏，於1955年12月20日購於以上來源，後由家族繼承

(invoice 收據)

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