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A RARE CHINESE ENAMEL EUROPEAN SUBJECT STEM BOWL
AND COVER
QIANLONG 1736-95
The exterior of the bowl decorated with three cartouches enclosing
Europeans in classical dress, the cover with two panels depicting herders and
their livestock, all reserved on a green ground painted with many flowers and
leaves, with a dense band of various fruits encircling the foot, 13cm. (2)
£5,000-8,000
The panels on the bowl depict Vertumnus and Pomona with two dogs at their feet,
Ceres, Pomona and Flora beneath a tree, and Cybele seated in her chariot pulled
by two lions with a beggar woman kneeling before her with a wreath.
Cf. Asian Art Day One, 19th May 2010, lot 41 for a comparable stem bowl and
cover sold in these rooms; see also D S Howard and J Ayers, China for the West,
vol.2, pp.636-637, no.662 for a similarly decorated enamel saucer dish with the
same scene of Cybele meeting a beggar woman.
清乾隆 銅胎畫琺瑯西洋人物高足蓋碗
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