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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE DALLAS COLLECTION
2075
AN EXCEPTIONAL IMPERIAL PAINTED ENAMEL WINE POT AND COVER
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK WITHIN A SQUARE IN RED ENAMEL AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-
1795)

Each broad side of the faceted bombé body is fnely painted with a different scene of scholars,
in one, three scholars sit on stools as they examine a painting, and in the other, two scholars sit
sleepily on the ground beside an attendant and a large wine jar. Each panel is bordered by blue
dragon-scroll and reserved on a dense, foliate scroll-decorated yellow ground repeated on the
narrow sides, handle, spout, and cover below a rectangular, carnelian agate fnial.
7 in. (17.8 cm.) wide across spout and handle

$300,000-500,000

PROVENANCE:

S. Marchant & Son, London, 2001.
清乾隆 黃地銅胎畫琺瑯開光文人雅集圖酒壺 紅彩方框六字篆書款

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