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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 士紳藏品

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A LARGE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL HEXAGONAL ‘LOTUS AND Cloisonné basins painted with lacquer in the interior, such as the
CHI-DRAGON’ BASIN present lot, are rare. Compare with a related cloisonné basin, second
Kangxi half 17th century, in the Uldry Collection with the same shape but
Of lobed hexagonal form with a lipped rim, the circular and inner with chi dragon and shou characters on the interior, illustrated in
straight wall is well painted a layer of red lacquer, the broad flange Chinese Cloisonne: The Pierre Uldry Collection, London, 1989,
rim with six panels of stylised full-face horned chi dragons in sapphire no.177. Compare also with two similarly shaped basins with different
enamel flanking stylised red stylised shou characters against a blue decoration in the interior, Kangxi, in Les Arts Décoratifs-musée des
ground, the exterior sides and underside of the rim decorated with a Arts décoratifs, Paris, illustrated in Cloisonné: Chinese Enamels from
broad band of lotus scroll in white, red, yellow, green and sapphire the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dyansties, New York, 2011, pp.135 and 137.
enamel, slightly domed base and edge of the rim gilded, stand.
47cm (18 1/2in) wide. (2). A related example was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 June 2011,
lot 3593.
£6,000 - 8,000
CNY54,000 - 72,000
清康熙 銅胎掐絲琺瑯纏枝番蓮紋折沿葵口盆

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