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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE HAWAIIAN COLLECTION A pair of similar covered vases is displayed in situ at the Zixiao dian in the
Yiheyuan, Summer Palace. The hall was a lounge for princes, patriarchs
1054 and cabinet ministers when in the Summer Palace to celebrate Empress
A PAIR OF LARGE GILT-METAL-MOUNTED CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL Dowager Cixi’s birthdays, and a repository for her birthday gifts.
FACETED VASES AND COVERS
An example in the Shenyang Imperial Palace Museum is illustrated in The
LATE 18TH-19TH CENTURY Prime Cultural Relics Collected by Shenyang Imperial Palace Museum, The
Enamel Volume, 2007, p. 170, no. 14. Compare, also, one sold at Christie’s
The vases are fnely decorated on the four sides with peony, chrysanthemum New York, 20 September 2005, lot 116, and another sold at Christie’s Hong
and aster and there are further fowers on the tapering shoulders. The faceted Kong, 28 May 2014, lot 3544. A very similar, unpublished, vase with cover is
corners are decorated with blue angular scroll and are overlaid with gilt-metal in the collection of the British Museum, collection no. 1992.0704.1.
mounts cast as cord-tied bi discs stretched between the beaks of winged birds
applied to the shoulder corners and the heads of crouching monster supports 清十八世紀晚期/十九世紀 掐絲琺瑯花卉紋方蓋瓶一對
at the base. The faceted covers are similarly decorated with prunus and other
fowers below a lingzhi fungus fnial.
21Ω in. (54.6 cm.) high
$25,000-35,000
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