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‘squirrel AnD grApevine’ yenyen DrAgon-hAnDleD ewers ‘pigeon’ inCense Burners AnD
vAses Late Qing Dynasty Covers
Late Qing Dynasty Each pear-shaped vessel decorated with 19th century
Enamelled in mirror image with a continuous profusely scrolling lotus in pink, red, blue, Standing facing left and right, the upper
scene of squirrels clambering amongst green and white enamel, with a ruyi-head wings and tail feathers decorated in coloured
pine branches and grape vines, above border at the shoulder and mouth rim, all enamels on white grounds with the gilt wires
bamboo, lingzhi fungus, flowering prunus and reserved on a gilt-copper ground, the handle delineating the plumage.
rockwork, the flaring neck with alternating elaborately modelled as a five-clawed dragon 15.5cm (6 1/8in) long (4).
yellow and black upright lappets containing clambering up the side of the ewer.
lotus scrolls and cranes, the interiors each 30.5cm (12in) high (2). £2,500 - 3,500
with lotus scroll against a red ground, wood CNY24,000 - 33,000 HK$30,000 - 41,000
stands. £800 - 1,200
Each 43.8cm (17 1/4in) high (4). CNY7,600 - 11,000 HK$9,500 - 14,000
£1,000 - 1,500 For a comparable ewer dated Qing Dynasty
CNY9,500 - 14,000 HK$12,000 - 18,000 (1644-1911) see B. Quette et al, Cloisonné:
Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming, and
Provenance Qing Dynasties, Bard Graduate Centre 2011,
Charles Brooking Compton (1876-1935), and p. 246, no. 140.
thence by descent
A European private collection, no.64.0003.
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