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A RARE PAINTED ENAMEL EWER AND BARBER’S BOWL A PAIR OF CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL PRICKET CANDLESTICKS
FOR THE PORTUGUESE MARKET, 18TH CENTURY Qianlong
18th century Of square section, the flared bases rising to the curved shallow drip-
The oval bowl finely painted into the well with mandarin ducks floating pans and columns rising to smaller drip-pans surmounted by prickets,
on a lotus pond, the cavetto with shaped cartouches containing floral decorated around the exterior in bright enamels on a turquoise ground
sprays, the everted rim with further colourful floral scrolls interspersed with leafy foliate scrolls amid stylised florets and lotus blossoms.
with bold butterflies, the exterior with grapevines, 41cm (16 1/4in) Each 39.5cm (15 1/2in) high. (2).
wide; the nautilus-shell-shaped ewer brightly painted around the body
with shaped panels enclosing lotus pond and ducks, floral sprays, and £22,000 - 28,000
butterflies, reserved on a stylised leafy ground, applied to the side with CNY190,000 - 250,000
a large strapwork handle and all supported on a similarly-decorated tall
spreading foot, 27cm (10 1/2in) high. (2).
清乾隆 掐絲琺瑯花卉紋燭臺一對

£10,000 - 15,000 The present lot would have originally served as a part of a garniture set
CNY89,000 - 130,000 for ritual or ancestral altars. Compare with a related pair of cloisonné
enamel candlesticks, of square section, Qianlong, illustrated as part
十八世紀 外銷葡萄牙市場銅胎畫琺瑯執壺及剃須盤一組兩件 of a five-piece altar set by H.Brinker and A.Lutz, Chinese Cloisonné:
The Pierre Uldry Collection, New York, 1989, pl.267. A single cloisonné
D.S.Howard and J.Ayers in China for the West, vol.1, London, 1978, enamel candlestick, Qianlong four-character mark and of the period,
p.144, pl.125, discuss ewers of this nautilus shell form and argue that with the same interlacing lotus design, but of cylindrical section, is
they probably copied European silver or pewter, the scallop shell in illustrated in Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum:
particular being common from the 17th century. They argue that wares Enamels, vol.2, Beijing, 2011, p.368, no.296.
of this form date usually between 1720 and 1725. A Canton painted
enamel ewer and basin are in the collection of the Hermitage Museum, Compare with a related pair of cloisonné enamel candlesticks of
St.Petersburg, illustrated by T.B.Arapova, Chinese Painted Enamels, square section, Qianlong, which was sold at Bonhams Hong Kong,
Moscow, 1988, pl.2(3). See also a similar painted enamel ewer and 26 May 2007, lot 200.
basin, 18th century, illustrated by J.Ayers, Chinese and Japanese
Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen,
vol.II, London, 2016, p.954, nos.2136-2137.

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