A FINE AND RARE PAIR OF CLOISONNE ENAMEL MEIPING

LATE QIANLONG/EARLY JIAQING PERIOD (1750-1820)

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A FINE AND RARE PAIR OF CLOISONNE ENAMEL MEIPING
LATE QIANLONG/EARLY JIAQING PERIOD (1750-1820)
Each vase well enamelled with four clusters of floral sprays growing upright from blue rockwork, the first with varieties of peony and gardenia, the second with lotus blooms, leaves, pods and arrowheads, the third with red, yellow, blue and purple chrysanthemums, and lastly with multi-coloured prunus growing amidst bamboo, all against a gilt wire inlay diaper on a turquoise ground, above overlapping lappets and below four large interlocking ruyi-heads around the broad shoulder, each enclosing archaistic scrollwork against a black ground, the narrow neck with stylised lotus scrolls
17 in. (43 cm.) high (2)

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Lot Essay

Cf. a pair of yellow-ground cloisonne enamel meiping of this form but smaller size (26.7 cm.), decorated with similar decorative bands around the base and shoulder, illustrated in Chinese Cloisonne, The Clague Collection, Phoenix Art Museum, 1980, pl. 68.

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