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A PAIR OF CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL 'MILLEFLEURS' DOUBLE A pair of cloisonné enamel double-gourd vases of a similar size to the current
GOURD VASES lot dated to the Qianlong period but unmarked and decorated with gourds
QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER CAST MARKS WITHIN A DOUBLE were sold from the Arthur M. Sackler collection at Christie’s New York, 24
SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
March 2011, lot 1621.
Each vase is delicately wired and enamelled with an elaborate design of
overlapping fowers, decorated with a blue ribbon to the mid section. 清乾隆 掐絲琺瑯萬花錦繡包袱紋葫蘆瓶一對
15 in. (38.1 cm.) high (2)
「乾隆年製」楷書款
£20,000–30,000 $27,000–39,000
€23,000–33,000
Compare a smaller pair (22.2 cm.) of Qianlong mark and period millefeurs
vases decorated with the trompe l’oeil ribbon but with the addition of
Buddhist lion roundels, published in H. Brinker and A. Lutz, Chinesisches
Cloisonné Die Sammlung Pierre Uldry, Zurich, 1985, no. 298.

(marks)

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