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PROPERTY OF AN AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
8070
A CLOISONNÉ AND GILT BRONZE BOWL
Qianlong period
The bowl has deep, rounded sides raised on a short, canted foot,
the foot decorated with green enamel and gilt wire in a foliate band,
below a red, blue, white and yellow lotus band, the main register of
the wall decorated with eight Buddhist emblems wreathed in multi-
colored foliate scroll, all against a turquoise ground, the sides rising
to an everted rim, decorated with a key fret border in blue and green
between gilt bands, the interior with a gilt surface, the underside with
a Qianlong six-character mark within a square double-line border.
4in (10cm) diameter
US$10,000 - 15,000
清乾隆 銅鎏金琺瑯飾八寶盌 《大清乾隆年製》楷書款
A cloisonné enamel vase, with Qianlong mark and of the period,
embellished with similar decoration, including lotus flowers and
Buddhist symbols on a ground of nearly identical, multi-colored foliate
scrolls, was sold in our London rooms, 16 May 2013, sale 20579, lot
325.
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