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A PAIR OF RARE GILT-BRONZE AND CHAMPLEVÉ ENAMEL A VERY RARE ZITAN DISPLAY CABINET
FLOWERPOTS Qianlong/Jiaqing
Qianlong The upper register with three square glass doors, the middle register
Each of four-lobed circular vessel raised on four ruyi feet, the flaring with two rectangular glass doors, and the lower register with two
sides rising to an everted lipped rim and flanked by a pair of lotus and square glass doors flanking two rectangular drawers carved with
acanthus leaf handles, the body brightly decorated with leafy lotus archaistic geometric designs, the sides each with one panel carved
blossom in lapis blue and turquoise enamel inlay, the rim chased with a with similar designs beneath the glass windows, all raised on four feet
key-fret border, with two old metal liners, possibly original. with shaped spandrels.
Each 25cm (9 7/8in) long. (4). 56.1cm (22 1/8in) high x 51.7cm (20 3/8in) wide x 17.2cm (6 3/4in) deep.

£20,000 - 30,000 £10,000 - 15,000
CNY180,000 - 270,000 CNY89,000 - 130,000

清乾隆 銅鎏金填琺瑯纏枝蓮紋海棠式花盆 一對 清乾隆/嘉慶 紫檀仿古夔紋博古格

Compare with a related flowerpot, Qianlong, in the collection of Provenance: a European private collection
the Museum of Asian Art, Moscow, illustrated by M.A.Neglinskaya
in Chinese Cloisonne’ Enamels Fifteenth to Twentieth Century, 來源： 歐洲私人收藏
Moscow, 2006, no.108, pp.52 and 149; see also similar design and
workmanship on a gilt-bronze and champlevé enamel flowerpot, mid-
Qing dynasty, illustrated in Compendium of Collections in the Palace
Museum: Enamels 4, Beijing, 2011, pl.26.

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