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A PAIR OF CLOISONNE ENAMEL 'SHOU'-CHARACTER BOWLS
Lot 1679THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

A PAIR OF CLOISONNE ENAMEL 'SHOU'-CHARACTER BOWLS

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A PAIR OF CLOISONNE ENAMEL 'SHOU'-CHARACTER BOWLS
QING DYNASTY, LATE 18TH CENTURY

Each shallow bowl decorated on the exterior with two registers of gilt Shou characters in various script on a deep lapis-blue ground, below a wan border around the mouth rim and upright lappets above the foot
5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm.) diam., box (2)

Specialist note

The bowls previously sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, one on 26 October 1993, lot 314, and the other, 29 October 2001, lot 725.

A similar, slightly shallower, bowl of this design, inscribed with a Jiaqing mark, is illustrated by H. Brinker and A. Lutz, Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry Collection, Zurich, 1989, pl. 347. Another example of a single bowl in the Beijing Palace Museum is illustrated in Metal-Bodied Enamel Ware, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2002, pl. 154.