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FIVE PAINTED ENAMEL TRAYS
560 18th to 19th century
A CANTON ENAMEL CIRCULAR BOX Comprising: a quatre-lobed rectangular tray
AND COVER with two Korean scholars in a garden, with an
19th century inscription, with a T-fret and scrolled meander
The stepped lid enamelled with the Eight border at the short galleried rim, raised on
Buddhist Emblems interspersed with scrolling small bracket feet; a similar tray with ‘The
flowerheads, surrounding a central Double Hundred Antiques’; a rectangular tray with a
Happiness roundel, all on a turquoise blue landscape design; a rectangular tray with a
ground, the box similarly decorated and ‘shou’ symbol pattern; a quatre-lobed tray
raised on a short footrim. with four of the Eight Buddhist Emblems on a
10.7cm (4 1/4in) diam. (2). foliate ground
£500 - 800 The largest: 34cm (13 3/8in) wide (5).
CNY4,600 - 7,300
HK$5,500 - 8,800 £500 - 700
CNY4,600 - 6,400
561 HK$5,500 - 7,700

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An American private collection (labels)

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A CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL ‘DRAGON’ JAR
AND COVER
Circa 1950
The baluster jar with two writhing dragons
amongst clouds and flaming pearls, the
shoulder with a lotus meander border, the lid
formed as a lotus leaf and with sea creatures
below the knop.
39cm (15 3/8in) high (2).

£1,000 - 1,500
CNY9,200 - 14,000
HK$11,000 - 16,000

Property from the Lord Cunliffe Collection of
Chinese Art Provenance: Rolf, Lord Cunliffe
(1899-1963), Honorary Keeper of the Far
Eastern Collections at the Fitzwilliam Museum,
Cambridge The Cunliffe Collection, and
thence by descent