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AN UNUSUAL PAINTED ENAMEL
CANDLE HOLDER
Qianlong
Formed with two arching arms, each painted
with repeating floral motifs to all sides, at the
apex an elaborate stand flanked with C and
S-scrolls, crowned with an open flower head
forming the candle holder.
25cm (9 3/4in) high

£4,000 - 6,000
HK$41,000 - 61,000
CNY36,000 - 54,000

Compare with a candelabra with similar open
flower head holders, exhibited in Jorge Welsh
Ltd., China Of All Colours: Painted Enamels
on Copper, London 2017

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A BRONZE TOOL VASE
17th century
The cylindrical vessel cold chiselled with
a design of a scholar sage observing a
constellation by the ocean; together with an
unusual unfinished quatre-lobed cloisonné
box and cover decorated with lotus flower
head meanders, the lid similarly decorated
and with a central Kangxi seal mark, Qing
Dynasty. The first 10cm (4in) high (3).

£1,000 - 1,500
HK$10,000 - 15,000
CNY9,000 - 13,000

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