An iron-red decorated and silvered Tibetan style ewer, Penba Hu, Qianlong four character sealmark and of the period

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An iron-red decorated and silvered Tibetan style ewer, Penba Hu, Qianlong four character sealmark and of the period
the globular body raised on a high splayed foot and surmounted by an elaborately formed knopped neck below a broad mouth, the s-shaped spout issuing from a moulded open-mouthed dragon, decorated around the body in iron-red on a silvered ground with the eight buddhistic emblems, bajixiang, interspersed with lotus scrolls, all within raised beaded borders -- 7 5/8in. (19.3cm.) high.

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Examples of this shape with varying decoration may be found in the National Palace Museum, Taipei and in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Also compare with the example in the Christie's Hong Kong Fine Chinese sale, 27th October 2003, Lot 640 and a Jiaqing example sold in these rooms, 14th November 2003, lot 297.

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