Various Properties
AN UNUSUAL GILT-BRONZE, CHAMPLEVE ENAMEL AND JADE STUPA, of hexagonal shape with a stepped base decorated with lotus petals and key-pattern, the central section tapering out in the form of a lantern with spinach jade panels alternately incised and gilt with prunus branches set within an incised and stippled framework embellished with hardstones, floral meanders and lion-masks suspending loose-rings, surmounted by an inwardly tapering pagoda-like shaft inset with celadon jade and glass, below a canopy pierced with a foliate meander and crowned by a champleve double-gourd vase with ribbons, below a jade-inset crescent,
Details
AN UNUSUAL GILT-BRONZE, CHAMPLEVE ENAMEL AND JADE STUPA, of hexagonal shape with a stepped base decorated with lotus petals and key-pattern, the central section tapering out in the form of a lantern with spinach jade panels alternately incised and gilt with prunus branches set within an incised and stippled framework embellished with hardstones, floral meanders and lion-masks suspending loose-rings, surmounted by an inwardly tapering pagoda-like shaft inset with celadon jade and glass, below a canopy pierced with a foliate meander and crowned by a champleve double-gourd vase with ribbons, below a jade-inset crescent,
18th/19th Century
73cm. high
18th/19th Century
73cm. high