A VERY RARE PAIR OF LARGE IMPERIAL GILT-COPPER REPOUSSE ENAMEL DOUBLE-GOURD VASES AND COVERS

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A VERY RARE PAIR OF LARGE IMPERIAL GILT-COPPER REPOUSSE ENAMEL DOUBLE-GOURD VASES AND COVERS

LATE QING DYNASTY, 1850-1911

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A VERY RARE PAIR OF LARGE IMPERIAL GILT-COPPER REPOUSSE ENAMEL DOUBLE-GOURD VASES AND COVERS
LATE QING DYNASTY, 1850-1911
Each vase is formed as a double gourd and decorated all over with a repousse design of leaves, star-shaped flowers and scrolling tendrils from which hang double-gourds of beige soapstone, all set against a ring-punched ground. The leaves are filled in with enamel in shades of turquoise, deep blue and green; and the star-shaped flowers inlaid with carved pink sea shells. The base of each vase is chased with an apocryphal Qianlong mark.
27 in. (69 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 30 April 1995, lot 595

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Lot Essay

Compare to a closely related example in the Shenyang Palace Museum, also probably dating to the Qianlong period, illustrated on the cover and inside the catalogue of The Prime Cultural Relics Collected by Shenyang Imperial Palace Museum, Shenyang, 2007, p. 69.

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