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A RARE PAIR OF CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL MODELS OF RAMS WITH RIDERS
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

清乾隆 掐絲琺瑯牧童臥羊燭臺一對

The recumbent rams are modelled with the legs tucked under the bodies and their heads facing forward,
their features are naturalistically defned. Each fgure is seated astride the beasts facing the opposite
direction and, wearing long robes and spiral hats. Each hand is holding a ribbon which is attached to a
central cloud-form section and is mounted with candlestick with a quatrefoil shaped drip-pan above a
double-gourd base. The rectangular gilt bases with replacement base plates and incised Qianlong four-
character marks within double squares.

later mounted for electricity, 21Ω in. (54.5 cm.) high overall

£100,000-150,000 $160,000-230,000
€140,000-200,000

PROVENANCE:

From a private English collection amassed in the 1960’s

來源:英國貴族私人珍藏，購於1960年代

See a similar pair of rare cloisonné enamel models of Rams with riders sold at Christie’s London King
Street, 6 November 2012, lot no. 16. See also the similarly modelled single ram with rider sold at
Christie’s London, ‘Living with Design: The Collections of Walter Lees and Mr. NC.’, 16 July 2010, lot 113.

Also compare a virtually identical recumbent cloisonné enamel ram in the Palace Museum, Beijing,
catalogued as a brush-stand and illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace
Museum 43 Metal-bodies Enamel Ware, 2002, Hong Kong, pl. 125 p. 129.

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