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A CHAMPLEVE AND GILT-BRONZE ENAMELLED DOUBLE-VASE AND STAND
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    HK$1,200,000 - HK$1,800,000
  • ($155,308 - $232,962)

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





Lot Description

A CHAMPLEVE AND GILT-BRONZE ENAMELLED DOUBLE-VASE AND STAND
QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER MARK AND CYCLICAL BINGWU DATE, CORRESPONDING TO A.D. 1786 AND OF THE PERIOD

The conjoined vases of upright elongated oval shape each rising from a separate circular foot, decorated with animal mask-handles, elaborately embraced around the exterior with gilt dragons and phoenix in relief against a lotus-scroll enamel and gilt-ground, the detachable double socle similarly decorated and enamelled, standing on eight ruyi feet
8 1/2 in. (21.7 cm.) high


清乾隆 鎏金銅鏨胎琺瑯龍鳳雙聯瓶 《大清乾隆》、《丙午年製》銘款

瓶呈橄欖式，大小相連成一體。兩瓶外壁鎏金銅鑄龍鳳飛舞，小瓶頂飾一龍連接大瓶成提樑，瓶肩飾繩紋，下飾獸首銜環。器留白處飾鏨刻琺瑯紋飾，以寶石藍及松石綠色裝飾龍形提樑，瓶口沿飾如意雲紋，肩飾垂蟬紋，足牆飾蓮瓣紋，器腹滿飾纏枝番蓮紋。小瓶底方框內鏨《大清乾隆》、大瓶底方框內鏨《丙午年製》銘款。隨形底座飾忍冬紋、蓮瓣紋及花龍拐子，下承八個如意雲頭足。

此器胎體厚重穩健，造型獨特，以鏨胎琺瑯和鏨花相結合的工藝製作，表現出乾隆時期工藝品製造技術之高超，和乾隆帝好雅慕古之文化內涵。

此器1990年6月1日於紐約佳士得拍賣，拍品103號。

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Provenance

Previously sold at Christie's New York, 1 June 1990, lot 103

Lot Notes

A very similar double-vase is illustrated by H. Brinker and A. Lutz, Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry Collection, The Asia Society Galleries, New York, 1989, no. 304, which has the same marks; another very similar double vase of the same size was sold at Christie's London, 13 May 2008, lot 53; and another example, dated 1786, was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 26-27 April 1998, lot 562.

Compare also related gilt-bronze and gilt-splashed double-vases of this form, such as a gilt-splashed example from the W.W. Winkworth Collection sold at Christie's London, 16 November 1999, lot 106, and a gilt-splashed double-vase in the Robert H. Clague Collection illustrated by R. Mowry, China's Renaissance in Bronze, Phoenix, 1993, p. 190, no. 40.

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