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PROPERTY FROM THE SPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS, SOLD TO
SUPPORT ART ACQUISITIONS AND COLLECTIONS CARE
917
A RARE LARGE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL HU-
FORM VASE
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
The rounded body is decorated with a continuous
landscape scene with deer, cranes, peach trees,
and a pavilion, below the waisted neck decorated
with a lower band of taotie masks below a wide
band of pendent lappets containing taotie masks.
The neck is flanked by a pair of gilt-bronze
handles in the form of stylized phoenixes with
scrolling bodies.
14 in. (35.6 cm.) high

$80,000-120,000
PROVENANCE:
George Walter Vincent Smith (1832-1923),
Springfield, Massachusetts, acquired prior to 1910.
The finely enameled scene on the present vase is
densely rendered and full of auspicious wishes.
The pavilion scene on one side with a crane
carrying a bamboo sprig references an abode
of immortals rising from the sea and housing
a magic vase. Whenever a crane would drop
a bamboo counter into the vase, a man’s life
expectancy would increase by 100 years. See
T.T. Bartholomew, Hidden Meanings in Chinese
Art, San Francisco, 2006, p. 221. The bats shown
on the other side hovering over the water with
a peach tree relays the message “May you be
blessed by the mountain of longevity and sea
of blessings” (ibid., p. 221). Together with the
deer, the bamboo and the pine tree, the carefully
chosen subjects woven through the scene relay a
wish for long life.
斯普菲博物館珍藏，拍賣收益將用於藏品購藏及維護
清乾隆 掐絲琺瑯山水瑞獸紋壺
來源:
史喬沃先生（1832-1923），斯普林菲爾德，麻薩諸塞
州，入藏於1910年以前。

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