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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT MIDWESTERN COLLECTION PROVENANCE
A RARE ORMOLU-MOUNTED CANTON The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York, 1993.
ENAMEL ‘TRIBUTE BEARERS’ VASE
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD $ 6,000-8,000
finely painted with European gentlemen traversing a hilly
landscape bearing gifts including a lion, ivory tusks, a gilt 清乾隆 銅胎畫琺瑯進寶圖筒瓶
model of a pagoda, a blue vase, and a platter of jewels, the
figure carrying the jewels riding astride an elephant and the 銅鎏金鑲足及包口
others proceeding on foot accompanied by horn players, the
interior glazed turquoise, ormolu mounts at the mouth and 來源
foot The Chinese Porcelain Company，紐約，1993年
Overall height 10⅛ in., 25.6 cm

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A CANTON ENAMEL ‘DRAGON’ BOX AND 清十九世紀 銅胎畫琺瑯雲龍戲珠紋花式大
COVER 蓋盒
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY
of eight-lobed form supported on a slightly splayed foot, the
domed cover vividly enameled with four five-claw dragons
chasing a ‘flaming pearl’ in the center, the ‘flaming pearl’
surrounded by two pairs of shou and swastika motifs and
four more auspicious emblems, painted with the ‘Eight
Buddhist Emblems’ each on one lobe to the sides, with
more auspicious motifs in between, all amidst layers of
polychrome clouds against blue ground, encircled with
a narrow band of bats along the rim, the box similarly
decorated to the sides, with a lappet of upright petals above
the foot, and a keyfret band encircling the foot, the inside
enameled light yellow, the base enameled white (2)
Diameter 11⅞ in., 32 cm
$ 6,000-8,000

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