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                                                                              A CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL VASE, HU
                                                                              17th century
                                                                              The elegant pear-shaped body supported on
                                                                              a splayed foot and rising to a waisted neck
                                                                              with flared rim, the shoulders set with a pair
                                                                              of taotie-mask handles suspending loose gilt-
                                                                              bronze rings, the exterior brightly enamelled
                                                                              on a turquoise ground with sections enclosing
                                                                              large lotus blooms wreathed in scrolling
                                                                              foliage issuing curling leaves, the four main
                                                                              horizontal bands divided by three thinner
                                                                              bands of floral scrolls on a darker blue ground,
                                                                              the spreading foot similarly decorated with a
                                                                              band of lotus blooms.
                                                                              31cm (12 5/8in) high.

                                                                              £1,500 - 2,000
                                                                              CNY14,000 - 18,000

                                                                              Please note this Lot is to be sold at
                                                                              No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

                                                                              十七世紀 銅胎掐絲琺瑯番蓮紋鋪首耳壺

                                                                              Published, Illustrated and Exhibited:
                                                                              Roger Keverne Ltd., Summer Exhibition,
                                                                              London, 2013, no.52

                                                                              展覽著錄:Roger Keverne Ltd.,《夏季展
                                                                              覽》,倫敦,2013年,編號52

                                                                              Compare with a cloisonné enamel ‘lotus’
                                                                              vase of similar design and form, 17th
                                                                              century, but without taotie-mask handles,
                                                                              illustrated in Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre
                                                                              Uldry Collection, London, 1989, pl.183;
               593                                                            another related example is illustrated in the
                                                                              Compendium of Collections in the Palace
                                                                              Museum: Enamels II, Beijing, 2010, p.52.

                                                                              A similar cloisonné enamel ‘lotus’ vase, 17th
                                                                              century, was sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong on
                                                                              7 April 2015, lot 3727.
                                                                              594
                                                                              A RARE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL
                                                                              FLORIFORM PRICKET CANDLESTICK
                                                                              Kangxi
                                                                              Formed as a small drip pan, cylindrical shaft,
                                                                              larger lobed drip pan, baluster stem and high
                                                                              domed base, all finely decorated in bright
                                                                              vibrant colours with archaistic coiling dragons
                                                                              and scrolling lotus.
                                                                              18.3cm (7 2/8in) high. (2).

                                                                              £2,000 - 3,000
                                                                              CNY18,000 - 27,000

                                                                              Please note this Lot is to be sold at
                                                                              No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

                                                                              清康熙 銅胎掐絲琺瑯螭龍紋瓣式燭台

                                                                              See a related cloisonné enamel and gilt-
                                                                              bronze lobed pricket candlestick, second
                                                                              half 17th century, illustrated by Sir H.Garner,
                                                                              Chinese and Japanese Cloisonné Enamels,
                                  594                                         London, 1962, pl.62A.

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