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A PAINTED ENAMEL YELLOW-GROUND BOWL, COVER AND
STAND
18th century
The bowl, cover and stand exquisitely painted to the sides with
elaborate floral sprays growing from leafy stems in subtle tones of pink,
purple on a bright yellow ground, the top of the cover decorated with
writhing archaistic chilong, the stand similarly painted on the base, the
interiors of the bowl and cover enamelled white.
The bowl, 15.5cm (6 1/8in) diam. (3).
£2,500 - 3,500
CNY22,000 - 31,000
十八世紀 銅胎畫琺瑯黃地纏枝花卉紋蓋盌及托盤
Provenance: a European private collection
來源：歐洲私人收藏
See a pair of identical yellow-ground covered bowls formely in the Alfred
Morrison collection, Fonthill House, which sold at Christie’s London,
9 November 2004, lot 18. Compare with a related painted enamel
bowl and cover, Qianlong, illustrated by M.Gillingham, Chinese Painted 226
Enamel, Oxford, 1978, p.64, no.75. where the author notes that ‘pieces
with a yellow ground traditionally have Imperial associations’. See a
yellow-ground painted enamel plate with similar lotus scrolls, Qianlong
seal mark and of the period, illustrated in Ming and Qing Chinese Arts
from the C.P.Lin Collection, Hong Kong, 2014, p.349, no.215.
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AN IMPERIAL-TRIBUTE PAINTED ENAMEL FAMILLE ROSE
LIME-GREEN GROUND TRAY
Qianlong red-enamelled four-character mark and of the period
The quatrelobed tray decorated with scattered foliate floral sprays
around a central melon spray beside two butterflies, the sides with foliate
floral scrolls, the underside white enamelled with the red enamelled mark
in the centre within a double square. 18cm (7 1/16in) wide.
£1,500 - 2,000
CNY13,000 - 18,000
清乾隆 銅胎綠地畫琺瑯瓜蝶紋海棠式淺盤
紅料「乾隆年制」楷書款
Provenance: a Spanish private collection, and thence by descent
來源：西班牙私人收藏，並由後人保存迄今
The present lot was part of the Imperial Tribute production in Guangdong
for the Qing court. The form and decoration of the lobed dish imitate
those produced in porcelain such as a pair of famille rose lime-green
ground quatrefoil dishes, Qianlong iron-red seal marks and of the period,
which was sold at Christie’s New York, 19 September 2006, lot 418.
The melon, gua (瓜), because of its many seeds, became a symbol of 227
progeny. Together with butterflies, die (蝶), which is a homophone for
another type of melon, die (瓞), a rebus is created for ‘The blessing of
ceaseless generations of sons and grandsons’, guadie mianmian (瓜瓞綿
綿). This blessing originates from a line in a poem included in the ‘Classic
of Poetry’, Shi Jing (詩經), China’s most ancient anthology of poetry.
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A PAINTED ENAMEL GILT-DECORATED BLUE-GROUND
‘LOTUS’ BOWL
Qianlong four-character seal mark and of the period
Exquisitely decorated in gilt around the exterior with a continuous lotus
scroll, beneath a key-fret border on the rim and a band of lappets
around the foot, all on a lustrous violet-blue ground, the interior a
turquoise blue, the recessed base white. 12.4cm (4 7/8in) diam.
£2,000 - 3,000
CNY18,000 - 26,000

清乾隆 銅胎藍透明琺瑯描金纏枝蓮紋盌
藍料「乾隆年製」篆書款
Compare with a very similar pair of gilt-decorated blue enamelled lotus
bowls, Qianlong four character marks and of the period, illustrated
in The Prime Cultural Relics Collected by Shenyang Imperial Palace
Museum: The Enamel Volume, Liaoning, 2004, p.41, no.4. 228

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