Live Auction 2196Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art Including Property from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections
Lot 235THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 

A RARE GUANGZHOU TRIBUTE SILVER WIRE-INLAID ZITAN HAND MIRROR WITH PAINTED ENAMEL BACK

18TH/19TH CENTURY

Closed15 September 2009

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USD 30,000

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A RARE GUANGZHOU TRIBUTE SILVER WIRE-INLAID ZITAN HAND MIRROR WITH PAINTED ENAMEL BACK
18TH/19TH CENTURY
The tip of the handle finely carved as a ruyi head and the upper part with leaf tips below a beaded border at the base of a lotus leaf in which is 'nestled' the oval mirror frame inlaid in fine silver wire with archaistic dragon scroll, the back inset with a painted enamel plaque depicting 'antiques' reserved on a pale turquoise diaper ground
13 3/8 in. (34 cm.) long

Acquired in South Africa in the 1960s.

Specialist note

See a similar hand mirror, although with enamel frame and handle, dated to the Daoguang or Xianfeng periods, in the collection of the Palace Museum, illustrated in Tributes From Guangdong to the Qing Court, Hong Kong, 1987, p. 86, no. 50.