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AN EXCEPTIONAL AND 清乾隆 掐絲琺瑯犧尊一對

EXTREMELY RARE PAIR 《乾隆年製》款
OF IMPERIAL CLOISONNE

ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE
FIGURES OF TAPIRS

MARKS AND PERIOD OF
QIANLONG

each outstandingly cast in the form of a tapir dynamically
standing foursquare on its gilt-bronze hooves, the beast
rendered with muscular contours and a tapering tail tucked
between its haunches, the head brilliantly rendered with alert
eyes below a pair of upright ears, each defined with a concave
centre, the rounded and prominent snout depicted agape and
revealing its teeth, the neck collared with a gilt-bronze band
finely adorned with a classical scroll, the back of the hollow
figure with a teardrop-shaped hinged aperture framing a four-
character reign mark within a square, all superbly decorated
with a glistening speckled bluish-green enamel against
fine wires delicately forming flame scroll motifs all over the
muscular body of the beast
29 and 29.5 cm, 11⅜ and 11⅝ in.

HK$ 4,000,000-6,000,000
US$ 510,000-765,000

Marks

48 SOTHEBY’S 蘇富比