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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE HAWAIIAN COLLECTION

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A PAIR OF LARGE GILT-METAL-MOUNTED CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL A pair of similar covered vases is displayed in situ at the Zixiao dian in the
FACETED VASES AND COVERS Yiheyuan, Summer Palace. The hall was a lounge for princes, patriarchs and
LATE 18TH-19TH CENTURY cabinet ministers when gathered to celebrate the Empress Dowager Cixi’s
birthdays, and a repository for her birthday gifts.
The vases are fnely decorated on the four sides with peony, chrysanthemum
and aster and there are further fowers on the tapering shoulders. The faceted
A similar vase in the Shenyang Imperial Palace Museum is illustrated in The
corners are decorated with blue angular scroll and are overlaid with gilt-metal
Prime Cultural Relics Collected by Shenyang Imperial Palace Museum, The
mounts cast as cord-tied bi discs stretched between the beaks of winged birds
Enamel Volume, 2007, p. 170, no. 14. A very similar, unpublished, vase with
applied to the shoulder corners and the heads of crouching monster supports
cover is in the collection of the British Museum, collection no. 1992.0704.1.
at the base. The faceted covers are similarly decorated with prunus and other
Compare, also, one sold at Christie’s New York, 20 September 2005, lot 116,
fowers below a lingzhi fungus fnial.
and another sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 May 2014, lot 3544.
21Ω in. (54.6 cm.) high 清十八世紀晚期/十九世紀 掐絲琺瑯花卉紋方蓋瓶一對
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$25,000-35,000

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