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A RARE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL SQUARE
LANTERN
18th century
The body comprising four panels of opaque glass
and bordered by a key-fret band, the rounded
stepped shoulder with a band of openwork ruyi
picked out in black enamel, before a reticulated flared
crown of alternating scrolling designs and lappets,
below a further key-fret band, raised on a similarly
decorated waisted foot supported by a ruyi band.
35.7cm (14in) high.
£6,000 - 8,000
CNY54,000 - 71,000
十八世紀 銅胎掐絲琺瑯鏤空纏枝花卉紋宮燈

Provenance: Collection of Lü Xiaguang (1906-1994)
Sotheby’s Paris, 9 June 2011, lot 289
A distinguished European private collection

來源：
Lü Xiaguang (1906-1994)舊藏
2011年6月9日於巴黎蘇富比拍賣，拍品289號
顯貴歐洲私人收藏

Compare with a related pair of cloisonné enamel
lanterns, 18th century, which was sold at Christie’s
Hong Kong, 29 May 2007, lot 1642.

221 *
A RARE BRONZE CIRCULAR INCENSE
BURNER
Yongzheng seal mark and of the period
Of compressed globular form, the shallow vessel
with rounded sides supported on a short foot rising
to a lipped rim. 21.5cm (8 1/2in) diam.
£4,000 - 6,000
CNY36,000 - 54,000
清雍正 銅壓經爐
「大清雍正年製」篆書鑄款

Yongzheng reign-marked bronze vessels are rare.
One bronze incense burner cast with a Yongzheng
mark in a rectangular line, in the Palace Museum,
Beijing, is illustrated in Classics of the Forbidden City:
Splendors from the Yongle and Xuande Reigns of
China’s Ming Dynasty, Beijing, 2012, p.265, pl.145.

Compare with a bronze alms-bowl, Yongzheng mark
220 and of the period, which was sold at Christie’s Hong
Kong, 1-2 June 2015, lot 718.

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