QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A PAINTED ENAMEL QUADRILOBED HANDWARMER
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
The body, of barbed, quadrilobed outline, is painted on the long sides with scenes of three goats (sanyang) in a landscape and on the two ends with scenes of a long-tailed bird perched on a rose branch, within quadrilobed panels reserved on a rich blue ground decorated with scattered flower sprigs below a yellow ruyi border. Attached to the shoulder is a two-part swing handle. The sides of the cover are similarly decorated below the flat top, which is pierced with a pattern of interlocking wan diaper. The interior is covered in turquoise enamel and fitted with a deep metal liner. The base is enameled white.
7¼ in. (18.4 cm.) long

Provenance

Acquired in San Francisco in the 1980s.

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Lot Essay

Painted enamel handwarmers were listed as tribute items to the Qing court. A slightly larger example, decorated with a pink ground, is illustrated by Yang Boda in Tributes from Guandong to the Qing Court, Hong Kong, 1987, no. 47.

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