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Property from Another Owner

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A massive pair of cloisonné enameled metal cranes
20th century
Each formed in sections to include the head and hollow body with
a circular opening at the top covered by a joined pair of wings, the
candle stand in the form of a lingzhi fungus branch that rises from
each beak and the long legs now bolted onto a base of hexagonal
shape with pierced gallery surrounding a rock-shaped mound, the
surfaces colored in black, white, red and shaded blue and green
enamels.
72 3/4in (184.5cm) height overall
$30,000 - 40,000

Property from an Arizona Collection

8046
A cloisonné enameled metal vase
Late 19th/early 20th century
The waisted neck covered in a vine and lotus ground separating
two applied gilt bronze chilong-form handles raised atop a body of
flattened ovoid shape displaying to either side large roundels depicting
three auspicious rams in a sunny landscape encircled by further vine
and lotus patterns, all raised atop a tall foot tapering to a gilt foot rim
encircling the recessed gilt base.
11 1/4in (28.5cm) high
$5,000 - 7,000

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A cloisonné enameled footed dish
18th/19th century
Of tazza form, consisting of a shallow dish covered in ribboned Eight
Auspicious Buddhist Emblems (ba jixiang) amid small tufts of smoke
and clouds encircling a geometrically stylized eight-petal lotus roundel,
the underside of the mouth rim covered in additional vine and lotus
patterns encircling the tall conical foot displaying archaistic patterns
bisected by a horizontal gilt ridge, tapering slightly to the gilt foot rim
encircling the unmarked recessed base.
4 1/2in (11.5cm) high
$4,000 - 6,000

For a 19th century example, dated by inscription to the 16th year
of the Guangxu period (1890), see Chinese Cloisonne: The Clague
Collection, The Phoenix Art Museum, 1980, pl. 73, p. 156.

For a closely related example, see Christie’s New York, Rivers of Color:
Chinese Cloisonné from American Private Collections, 18 Sept. 2014,
lot 611, dated to the Qianlong Period.

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