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125 Compare the present lot to a pair of similar bowls, of comparable size,
illustrated by Claudia Brown in Chinese Cloisonné: The Clague Collection,
A CLOISONNÉ AND CHAMPLEVÉ ENAMEL BOWL Phoenix Art Museum, 1980, pp. 122-23, pl. 56. Other examples have been
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) sold at auction: a pair at Christie’s New York, 20 March 2001, lot 53; a
single bowl at Sotheby’s London, 4 November 2009, lot 144; and another
清乾隆 掐絲琺瑯萬壽無疆紋碗「子孫永寶」刻款 one at Christie’s New York, 18 September 2014, lot 625. Bowls of this type
in varying sizes are known, including one in the Clague Collection, one in
The bowl has rounded sides decorated with four circular medallions enclosing the Staatliche Museum, Berlin, and six in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
the characters, wan shou wu jiang (‘a long life without end’) in gilt seal script on Bowls of the same design, but smaller (3æ and 4 in.) and with deeper sides,
a blue ground, all surrounded by lotus scroll between yellow-green champlevé have been sold at Christie’s Hong Kong: a pair, 28 November 2006, lot 1678,
enamel borders of archaistic dragon scroll above and petal lappets below. The and a single bowl with Qianlong mark, 29 May 2013, lot 2073. See, also, the
interior, foot and base are heavily gilded, and the latter is inscribed with a four- two bowls of the same design, and of the aforementioned shape, bearing
character mark, zi sun yong bao (‘treasured forever by sons and grandsons’) the same zisun yongbao marks, in the Beijing Palace Museum Collection,
within a double square. illustrated in Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum - Enamels (2) -
Cloisonne in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), Beijing, 2011, pls. 281 and 282.
6 in. (15.2 cm.) diam.

£8,000-12,000 $13,000-18,000
€11,000-16,000

In the Qing court records, it is documented that in the 45th year of the
Qianlong reign (1780), a large number of cloisonné enamel bowls and
dishes decorated with wanshou wujiang characters were produced for the
celebration of the Emperor’s 70th birthday.

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