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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN COLLECTION
1232
A RARE CLOISONNÉ AND CHAMPLEVÉ ENAMEL ROOSTER- 顯㈥美४珍藏
FORM CENSER 清康熙ǎ銅胎掐絲琺瑯錦鷄爐
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
Ϝ源
10 in. (25.4 cm.) long
4QJOL 4PO
і敦
年
紐☼ωૈ得
年 月 日
拍品編號
$15,000-25,000 索維ḓ珍藏
PROVENANCE:
Spink & Son, London, 1996.
Christie's New York, 29 March 2006, lot 299.
The James E. Sowell Collection.
No other cockerel of this type, with the feathers not only in champlevé enamel
but constructed in the same unusual fashion, with feathers individually made
in order to appear more realistic, appears to have been published.

PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN COLLECTION
1231
A PAIR OF CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL FIGURES OF CAPARISONED 顯㈥美४珍藏
WHITE ELEPHANTS 清十Ջˠ紀ǎ銅胎掐絲琺瑯太平有ㅿˏ對
18TH CENTURY
Ϝ源
13º in. (33.8 cm.) high
索維ḓ珍藏
$15,000-25,000
PROVENANCE:
The James E. Sowell Collection.
A similar white cloisonné enamel elephant, also with similarly decorated
blanket, saddle and tusks, was sold at Christie's New York, 18 September
2014 lot 635.

The elephant is the embodiment of strength, wisdom and intelligence, and
the vase represents eternal harmony. The combination of the two conveys the
rebus taiping youxiang, 'peaceful times' or 'when there is peace, there are signs'.