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TWO TURQUOISE-GROUND CLOISONNÉ WALL VASES The present wall vases display the ornate aesthetic and technical
Double-gourd wall vase: 18th/early 19th century; mastery that characterizes cloisonné wares of the High Qing period.
Bottle-form wall vase: 19th century The double-gourd vase is particularly fine in the vibrant tones achieved
Comprising a double-gourd wall vase with an applied gilt-metal in its enamel and the elegant execution of the linework of the cloisons.
‘ribbon’ encircling the waist and issuing loops and fluttering ends along This vase shares visual and thematic relationships to a pair of Qianlong
the sides, the principal side of the vase centered with ‘Da Ji’ (‘great period cloisonné double-gourd ‘Da Ji’ wall vases sold at Sotheby’s,
auspiciousness’) surrounded by fruiting and flowering double-gourd New York, 11 September 2019, lot 824; and a Qianlong period
vines in a host of colors against a turquoise ground, a blue-enameled cloisonné flattened double-gourd ‘Da Ji’ vase from the collection
bat wrapping its wings around the rim, the reverse comprised of a of Roger Keverne sold in our London rooms, 7 June 2021, lot 695.
gilt-metal sheet worked in repoussé with lotus scroll and a stippled The botte vase utilizes the classic ‘scrolling lotus’ motif first seen on
ground, an inverted T-shaped aperture for suspension; and a bottle- cloisonné wares of the Ming dynasty, and reinterprets it in a 19th
form wall vase dominated by richly colored blossoming lotus scroll century visual language and palette, set off by elaborate openwork
against a turquoise ground all between lappet bands at the shoulder gilt handles.
and lower body, the neck with upright leaves divided by pendent floral
scroll and flanked by applied openwork gilt-metal scrolling chilong
handles, the waisted foot positioned atop a gilt-metal demilune stand
with ruyi-head feet, the reverse formed from a sheet of metal cut with
coin-shaped apertures.
9 3/8in (23.8cm); 10in (25.4cm) high (2).

$7,000 - 9,000
Provenance:
Sara Fredericks (1903-1986), likely acquired in the 1960s in New York,
thence by descent

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