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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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