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54 A RARE SMALL CLOISONNÉ
ENAMEL BOTTLE VASE
QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER
ENGRAVED MARK WITHIN A
DOUBLE SQUARE AND OF THE
PERIOD (1736-1795)
The body is decorated with lotus scroll
between petal-lappet and ruyi borders and
the neck with two lotus sprays between the
pair of archaistic bird-form handles.

4 in. (10.2 cm.) high
$20,000-30,000

清乾隆 掐絲琺瑯夔鳳紋小瓶
雙方框《乾隆年制》楷書刻款

1255 (mark)

1256
A VERY LARGE CLOISONNÉ
ENAMEL VASE
18TH CENTURY
The vase has lotus and archaistic
decoration, and is applied around the
bulbous body with four gilt-bronze taotie
mask handles suspending loose rings and
on the trumpet-shaped neck with a pair of
phoenix-form handles.

26 in. (66 cm.) high
$30,000-50,000

This large vase has features similar to
a comparably large vase (72.8 cm.) sold
at Sotheby’s London, November 2009,
lot 149. Both have archaistic and lotus
decoration and a pair of gilt-bronze
phoenix-form handles, but the latter vase
is hexagonal. See, also, the related smaller
(43 cm.) vase in the Qing Court Collection,
Beijing, illustrated in The Complete
Collection of Treasures of the Palace
Museum - 43 - Metal-bodied Enamel Ware,
Hong Kong, 2002, p. 151, pl. 143, which
also has gilt-bronze taotie and loose ring
handles applied to the body and a pair of
phoenix-form handles applied to the neck.
Another very similar vase is in the George
Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum,
Springfeld, Massachussetts.

清十八世紀 掐絲琺瑯鳳耳大瓶