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AN UNSUSUAL PAIR OF SOAPSTONE INLAID LACQUER BOTTLE VASES -

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AN UNSUSUAL PAIR OF SOAPSTONE INLAID LACQUER BOTTLE VASES
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(Set Currency)
    HK$800,000 - HK$1,000,000
  • ($103,539 - $129,423)

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Sale 2811
The Imperial Sale Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
31 May 2010
Hong Kong Buy Catalog





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AN UNSUSUAL PAIR OF SOAPSTONE INLAID LACQUER BOTTLE VASES
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

Each with the bulbous body and long narrow neck lavishly embellished with finely carved multi-coloured soapstone to depict stylised archaistic taotie masks between a band of lotus lappets at the base and alternating shou and bats below a pendant ruyi border at the shoulder, all on a ground of carved cinnabar lacquer wan characters, the neck flanked by loose ring handles and surmounted by a gilt bronze mount with a square aperture
11 3/8 in. (29 cm.) high
(2)


清乾隆 剔紅地嵌芙蓉石福壽如意瓶一對

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