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Impo rtant Chinese Art
New York |23 Sep 2020 | 09:00 AM EDT

Lot 637

A RARE PASTE -INSET GILT-BRONZE REPOUSSE VASE, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PE RIOD
Estimate: 80,000 - 120,000 USD

A RARE PASTE-INSET GILT-BRONZE REPOUSSE VASE
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD
清乾隆 銅鎏金鏨花嵌料龍耳瓶

splendidly modeled with the slightly tapering sides rising from a short splayed foot to a gently rounded shoulder, surmounted by a
waisted neck and galleried mouth, the neck flanked by a pair of chilong handles depicted in archaistic angular scrollwork, the body
decorated in repoussé with a central frieze enclosing four large formalized floral blooms wreathed by curling foliage bearing small
florets, between a band of stylized foliate lappets borne on a row of ruyi heads and two keyfret borders and a further band of
upright lappets above the foot, the design with highlights vibrantly inset with multi-colored glass paste, the interior with a metal
liner

Height 7¾ in., 19.8 cm

Provenance
Acquired in Chicago in the 1990s.

來源
1990年代購於芝加哥

Catalogue Note
This remarkable vase is testament to the intellectual, cultural and material exchange between China and Europe in the

18th century. Brilliantly gilded and elaborately decorated, the paste-inset floral heads and the Rococo-inspired scroll, the band

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