A TURQUOISE-ENAMELLED AND GILT-DECORATED HU

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A TURQUOISE-ENAMELLED AND GILT-DECORATED HU
IMPRESSED AND GILT QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

Of flattened pear shape, the vase is moulded in low relief and decorated in gilt with rows of stylised shou characters and a broad trellis-ground band at the shoulder divided by a pair of mythical beast heads, the base encircled by lappets, and the foot ring and mouth rim with a wan-symbol scroll, all against a bright turquoise ground (rim chip restored)
15 3/8 in. (39 cm.) high

拍品專文

Compare this lot with other Qianlong vases decorated in this technique, a green-ground vase with gilt-decorated shou characters, sold in these Rooms, 27 April 1997, lot 801; and a hu-shaped vase with a design of kui dragons, illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Palace Museum, Beijing, 1989, p. 394, no. 75.

The decoration is in imitation of champlevé enamel, a cross-media practice which J. Ayers, in The Baur Collection, Geneva, 1969, vol. IV, p. 12, describes as a 'striking phenomenon' during the Qianlong period.