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787
TWO BRONZE REPOUSSÉ HAND
WARMERS AND OPENWORK COVERS
Mid Qing Dynasty
The first with four cartouches variously
enclosing floral sprays, rockwork, birds,
lingzhi fungus and peaches, alternating with
butterflies above demi-flowerheads, between
a key-fret around the foot and shoulders, the
reticulated cover decorated with antiques
reserved on a wan ground bordered by floral
scrolls, the sides with the ‘Three Friends of
Winter’, pine, prunus and bamboo, with a
double arch handle decorated with nodes
simulating bamboo; the second of canted
square form, similarly decorated around the
sides with cartouches alternating with vases
bearing floral sprays, the reticulated cover with
floral blossoms alternating with bats against
foliate ground, the sides with a key-fret border,
with a similar double handle.
787 The larger 17cm (6 11/16in) wide. (4).
£1,200 - 1,500
CNY11,000 - 14,000

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

清中期 銅錘鍱開光花卉紋手爐 一組兩件

788
AN UNUSUAL PARCEL-GILT BRONZE
‘TURTLE AND SNAKE’ BRUSHPOT,
BITONG
Weiling zuo three-character mark, Qing
Dynasty
The cylindrical vessel cast in relief to each side
with a lobed panel depicting a snake entwined
around a turtle before tumultuous waves,
divided by wispy cloud scrolls, within borders
of archaistic dragon panels and bosses to
the upper and lower rims, archaistic three-
character inscription to the base.
14cm (5 1/2in) high.

£3,000 - 5,000
CNY27,000 - 45,000

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

清 局部鎏金銅開光玄武紋筆筒
「衛靈作」篆書款

The inscription on the base can be read: 衛靈
作, meaning ‘manufactured by Wei Ling’.

The Black Tortoise or Black Turtle (Xuanwu 玄
武) is one of the Four Symbols of the Chinese
constellations. Despite its English name, it is
usually depicted as a turtle entwined together
with a snake. Furthermore, in Chinese
mythology it is associated with and sometimes
simply known as the ‘Black Warrior’, Xuanwu,
788 referring to the Daoist deity.

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