LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF CLOISONNE AND CHAMPLEVE ENAMEL AND GLASS LANTERNS
LATE 18TH CENTURY
One side of each rectangular lantern hinged as a door, with blue keyfret borders below openwork bands of foliate scroll that surround the square opening on top, all above a recessed support with openwork lotus scroll sides centering a square platform with openwork balustrade raised on a gu-form support rising from another square platform that forms the top of the cushion-form base decorated with further foliate scroll below a petal-lappet border
19¾ in. (50.2 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Tai Sing Co., Hong Kong, 21 January 1992.

Lot Essay

Cloisonné enamel lanterns of this type, which are meant to sit on a table top, appear to be quite rare. In shape and design the present pair is related to a zitan lantern with painted glass panels illustrated by Tian Jiaqing, Classic Furniture of the Qing Dynasty, London and Hong Kong, 1996, p. 252, no. 114, where a lampstand of similar design in cloisonné enamel in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, is mentioned. See, also, the pair of cloisonné enamel lanterns of similar form with jade rather than glass panels sold at Sotheby's, New York, 23 - 24 March 1998, lot 468.

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