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A GILT-LACQUERED BRONZE FIGURE OF This finely cast bronze firgure is typical of later Ming works,
SAMANTABHADRA the heavy and elaborate jewellery and voluminous undulating
LATE MING DYNASTY robes echoing the classical styles of Northern Qi through Song
period sculpture. A larger bronze figure of Samantabhadra of
cast seated in lalitasana on a recumbent caparisonned the same period was sold in these rooms, 3rd April 2018, lot
elephant, his right hand raised in vitarkamudra, the benevolent 3677.
face framed by a foliate tiara, wearing a dhoti detailed with
elaborate borders and adorned with beaded jewellery, all
supported on a single-lotus pedestal
31.5 cm, 12⅜ in.

PROVENANCE
An old Japanese collection.

HK$ 150,000-250,000
US$ 19,400-32,300

明末 漆金銅普賢菩薩像
來源：
日本舊藏

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A RARE PAIR OF IMPERIAL ENAMEL BOAT-FORM 清乾隆
TRAYS 御製廣東銅胎綠地畫琺瑯花卉紋茶船一對
MARKS AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG
《乾隆年製》款
each decorated on the interior and exterior in bright enamels
with floral scrollwork against a lime-green ground, the base 來源：
enamelled white and inscribed with a four-character reign 法國私人收藏
mark, the rim mounted with a gilt-metal band
19.7 cm, 7¾ in.
PROVENANCE
A French private collection.

HK$ 300,000-400,000
US$ 38,800-52,000

It is rare to find any tray of this boat form, probably created at
workshops in Guangzhou and sent as tribute to the Imperial
court, and it is even rarer to find a pair of such quality. An
individual example of similar size, also bearing a four-character
Qianlong mark within a double square, was included by
Michael Gillingham in the exhibition Chinese Painted Enamels,
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1978, cat. no. 73. See also
another pair, enamelled on a blue ground, sold at Sotheby’s
Olympia, 16th November 2001, lot 337. Marks