Lot 118
118
RARE PAIRE DE LANTERNES EN EMAUX CLOISONNES ET VERRE PEINT
FROM THE ESTATE OF ELIE AND INNA NAHMIAS, FRANCE
RARE PAIRE DE LANTERNES EN EMAUX CLOISONNES ET VERRE PEINT

CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, EPOQUE QIANLONG (1736-1795)

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RARE PAIRE DE LANTERNES EN EMAUX CLOISONNES ET VERRE PEINT
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, EPOQUE QIANLONG (1736-1795)
Each lantern is richly ornamented in the shape of a double-gourd vase. The reverse-painted glass panels are elaborately decorated with the Eight Buddhist Emblems, bajixiang, and the whole is surmounted by a roof-like open-work structure of ruyi clouds with a 'double-gourd' finial ; small glass cracks.
18½ in. (47 cm.) high
Further details
A RARE PAIR OF CLOISONNE ENAMEL AND PAINTED GLASS 'PAGODA' LANTERNS
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

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Lot Essay

This pair of lantern can be compared to a similar one photographed in situ and illustrated in Palaces of the Forbidden City, Hong Kong, 1986, p. 304, pl. 455, where two hanging lanterns of this type are also illustrated, pls. 456 and 457. A pair of hanging lanterns with a similar combination of painted glass panels in enamelled metal frames can be seen in the former sleeping quarters of the emperors Tongzhi and Guangxu in the Forbidden City in Beijing, illustrated by Wan Yi, Wang Shuqing and Lu Yanzheng, Qingdai Gongting Shenghuo, 1985, pl. 172.

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