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A RARE CLOISONNE ENAMEL SQUARE VASE, 清乾隆 掐絲琺瑯山水紋琮式瓶
CONG
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD 來源：
Roger Keverne，倫敦
the square-sectioned body rising from a splayed foot 歐洲私人收藏
and surmounted by a tapered neck, each facet brightly 香港佳士得2013年5月29日，編號2075
enamelled with a landscape scene, variously depicting tiered
pavilions nestled amongst jagged cliffs and trees below 展覽：
vaporous clouds, the foot and neck similarly decorated with Roger Keverne，《Fine and Rare Chinese Works of Art
stylised lotus scrolls against a turquoise ground, the borders and Ceramics》，倫敦，2006年11月，編號78
covered in gilt
29.5 cm, 11⅝ in.

PROVENANCE
Roger Keverne, London.
A European private collection.
Christie’s Hong Kong, 29th May 2013, lot 2075.

EXHIBITED
Roger Keverne, Fine and Rare Chinese Works of Art and
Ceramics, London, November 2006, no. 78.

HK$ 420,000-500,000
US$ 54,000-64,000

This rare cloisonné enamel vase is in the form of a Neolithic
jade cong, encapsulating the Qianlong emperor’s reverence
for antiquity. Another closely related cloisonné vase of cong
form, from the Qing court collection, preserved in the Palace
Museum, Beijing, similarly enamelled with pavilions in a
swirling landscape, is illustrated in The Complete Collection
of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Metal-bodied Enamel
Ware, Hong Kong, 2002, pl. 145. Compare also two other
cloisonné enamel cong vases, one sold at Sotheby’s London,
14th November 1967, lot 46 and again at Christie’s Paris,
21st/22nd June 2016, lot 285, from the collection of Drs
Rosemary and Gordon Fryers; and another enamelled with
the Eight Trigrams and five bats, sold at Christie’s Paris,
th
10 September 2018, lot 77, from the collection of Juan de
Beistegui.

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