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A PAIR OF ENAMELED GU FORM VASES A CLOISONNE ENAMEL RETICULATED
QING DYNASTY, LATE 18TH CENTURY REVOLVING VASE
LATE QING DYNASTY
each with a tall bell-shaped foot below a large bulbous mid-
section, rising to a cylindrical aring neck and galleried decorated around the revolving body with four openwork
rim, painted overall in bright enamels with owers, keyfret, dragon medallions, reversed on a ground of stylized oral
and lappets on a turquoise ground, the interior of the foot scrolls and phoenix medallions, the neck with a pair of shou
enameled pink (2) characters and lotus owers
Height 11¾ in., 30 cm Height 13¼ in., 33.6 cm

$ 3,000-5,000 See a closely related revolving vase of this type, with a slightly
di erent decoration, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated
㶭⋩ℓᶾ䲨㛓ġġġ戭偶䔓䏢䐗剙⋱䲳如ᶨ⮵ in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum.
Metal-bodied Enamel Ware, Hong Kong, 2002, pl. 161; and
another was sold at Christie’s London, 6th November 2012,
lot 69. Compare a further example of the same type but in a
di erent shape, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,
accession no. 29.110.49.

$ 10,000-15,000

㶭㛓ġġġ戭偶㌸䴚䏢䐗掌䨢暚漵䲳廱⽫䒞

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