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The shape of this vessel and the inclusion of a cover indicate that it is a
A RARE PAINTED ENAMEL YELLOW-GROUND
ZHADOU AND COVER spittoon or zhadou. A related painted enamel vessel with cover, identifed
QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN BLUE ENAMEL as a covered spittoon, decorated with butterfies amidst fower sprigs, is
WITHIN A DOUBLE SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795) illustrated by Chuimei Ho and Bennet Bronson in the exhibition catalogue
Splendor of China’s Forbidden City: The Glorious Reign of Emperor Qianlong,
Raised on three gilt-bronze ruyi-head supports joined by a gilt-bronze ring, The Field Museum, Chicago, 2004, p. 261, no. 337, where the authors note
the zhadou has shallow sides decorated on the exterior with composite fower that spittoons of this type rarely survive outside the palace. See, also, two
scroll reserved on a lemon-yellow ground that continues onto the underside painted enamel covered spittoons similar to the published example sold at
of the wide, everted rim which is decorated on top in puce grisaille with four Christie’s New York, one with an interior funnel-shaped lining, sold 22 March
shaped panels with landscape scenes that are separated by scrolling dragons, 2007, lot 180, the other sold 26 March 2010, lot 1174. Although they have a
all on a lemon-yellow ground. The domed cover is encircled by bands of dragon fat everted rim and a domed cover, the shape of these spittoons is not as
scroll on a turquoise ground and fower scroll on a yellow ground, the two elegant as that of the present example, and they are not raised on supports.
separated by a gilt-bronze band of petal lappets repeated at the base of the The style of the painting is also very diferent. The present spittoon has a
knob. The interiors and base are covered in turquoise enamel. style of painting and palette similar to that seen on a Beijing enamel yellow-
5¬ in. (14.3 cm.) diam. ground tiered vessel and stand ofered at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 5 October
2016, lot 3619. The knob on the cover of the tiered vessel is similar to that
$40,000-60,000 of the present example.
清乾隆 黃地銅胎畫琺瑯開光山水圖奓斗 藍彩雙方框四字楷書款

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Manheim Galleries, New York, 1980s.

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