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PROPERTY FROM A FRENCH PRIVATE COLLECTION the Palace Museum Beijing containing paintings shi hui. Yuan cang Riben qiqi tezhan/Japanese PROPERTY FROM A FRENCH PRIVATE COLLECTION PROVENANCE Paire de brûle-parfums tripodes couverts
A GILT-BRONZE AND CLOISONNÉ by Yang Dazhang, as well as a zitan and ivory Lacquerware from the Ch’ing Imperial Collection, A PAIR OF GILT-BRONZE AND Acquired by grandparents of the present owner, en bronze doré et émaux cloisonnés à décor
ENAMEL COVERED BOX scroll box also in the Palace Museum Beijing, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2002, cat. nos CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL ‘ELEPHANTS thence by descent in the family. d’éléphants et de dragons, dynastie Qing, époque
both exhibited in the Macau Museum of Art and
Qianlong
01, 50, 51, 61 and 64). The imperial workshops
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD illustrated in Qing Legacies ¡V The Sumptuous Art continued to be engaged during the Qianlong AND DRAGONS’ TRIPOD INCENSE This rare pair of cloisonné incense burner
of Imperial Packaging, The Macau Museum of Art, reign in recreating this trompe-l’oeil wrapping BURNERS is unusual for its composite decoration 6 000-8 000€
finely worked in the form of three stacked hand of archaistic dragons on the handles, and
scrolls wrapped in cloth placed on an album Macau, 2000, cat.no. 2 and 3. The scroll boxes effect in various media, including in cloisonné QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD ‘elephant’ feet. Elephant heads supporting
box, all raised on a staged pedestal, decorated sometimes fitted in larger treasure boxes, not only enamels, but also in lacquer and sandalwood each in the form of a faceted bucket encircled the body and used as the feet on censers 清乾隆 掐絲琺琅花卉紋龍耳三象足蓋
with lotus reserved on a turquoise ground containing paintings, but all sorts of curios such as (Qingdai gongting baozhuang yishu/The Imperial with metal rings finely incised with classic is reminiscent of Ming dynasty censers; for 爐一對
Packing Art of the Qing Dynasty, Palace Museum,
archaic jades, miniature porcelains, cloisonne or
(4) scrolls, each panel enclosing a spray of example see a incense burner attributed to 來源 :
19.3 x 21 x 12.5 cm, 7⅝by 8¼by 4⅞ in. wood carvings. The illusion of an object wrapped Beijing, 1999, cat. nos 64 and 65). Jingtai’s reign, illustrated in Masterpieces of
in cloth was frequently evoked in Japanese lotus, set with archaistic dragon handles and 現藏家之祖父母得
Scroll boxes in the form of either three or five lacquer, of which Qianlong’s father, the Yongzheng Boîte couverte en bronze doré et émaux cloison- supported on three elephant feet, the domed Chinese Enamel Ware in the National Palace 後家族流傳至今
stacked scrolls were made in a variety of materials Emperor, appears to have been particularly fond. nés, dynastie Qing, époque Qianlong ribbed cover reticulated and surmounted by a Museum, Taipei, 1971, pl. 3, with a domed
and demonstrate the importance given to Among the many Japanese lacquer objects of ‘dragon’ finial openwork cover that may have also inspired the
packaging during the Qianlong reign. These were his collection were several pieces modelled in 15 000-20 000€ (4) design of the present cover.
usually placed on a matching album box as visible relief with the folds of gathered or knotted cloths, H. 28.5 cm, 11¼ in.
here. Compare for example a carved cinnabar sometimes tied with a cord, or even shaped in 清乾隆 掐絲琺瑯卷軸畫冊式蓋盒
lacquer scroll box with matching album box in form of pouches tied with ribbons (Qing gong

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