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A RARE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL PEAR-SHAPED VASE A FINE AND RARE GILT-BRONZE CHAMPLEVÉ ENAMEL WINE
Yongzheng/Qianlong VESSEL, GU
The pear-shaped vessel of oval cross-section, the compressed body Yongzheng/Qianlong
with a bright lotus flower-head meander, the tapering neck with The slender body rising from a spreading foot and rising to a flared rim,
plantain-leaf lappets, the slightly bulbous mouth with further lotus with four vertical rows of angular fret-flanges running up the sides of the
scrolls, all raised on a flaring foot rim. vase, the body decorated in colourful champlevé enamels with archaistic
22cm (8 5/8in) high. taotie masks against a gilt ground, the neck and base each with four
blade lappets centred by the flanges and decorated with C-scrolls.
£6,000 - 8,000 23.1cm (9 1/8in) high.
CNY54,000 - 72,000
£5,000 - 8,000
清雍正/乾隆 銅胎掐絲琺瑯纏枝番蓮紋瓶 CNY45,000 - 72,000
清雍正/乾隆 銅鎏金填琺瑯仿古饕餮紋花觚
Provenance: a European private collection, and thence by descent
來源: 歐洲私人收藏,並由後人保存迄今
Compare with a related gilt-bronze cloisonné enamel wall vase, in the
form of a gu, with similar archaic motifs and proportions, Kangxi mark
and period, illustrated by H.Brinker and A.Lutz, Chinese Cloisonne:
The Pierre Uldry Collection, London, 1989, pl.223.
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