FIRST HALF 20TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF MONUMENTAL CHINESE CLOISONNE ENAMEL VASES, ON STANDS
FIRST HALF 20TH CENTURY
Each with brass lip blue painted with geometric leiwen bands, above a waisted neck with lotus lappets and intertwined dragons, Shou characters and a double gourd collar with symbols of the Eight Precious Things, each bulbous body exuberantly decorated to one side with a pair of pheasants standing on rockwork amidst peonies and chrysanthemums, and the other side with cranes, exotic birds and spotted deer amidst lotus, peony and prunus flowers, all on a cloud waved Cobalt blue ground, tapering to a convex socle band with symbols of the Eight Precious Things, on a ruyi and arabesque decorated spreading circular foot, raised on an relief-carved ebonised lacquered pine stand
6 feet 8 in. (203 cm.) high; 30 in. (76 cm. diameter), the vases
8 feet 3 ½ in. (253 cm.) high; 36 in. (92 cm.) diameter, with stands

Provenance

From the Private Collection of Mr. Jack A. Belz, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Great Gatsby's Auction Gallery, Inc., Atlanta, 21 September 2019, lot 41 where acquired by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

Jack Belz, with his wife Marilyn, began collecting Asian art in 1968 and in 1998 established the Belz Museum of Asian & Judaic Art in Memphis, originally named the Peabody Place Museum, which includes an extensive collection of Chinese 19th century art.

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