A RARE IMPERIAL JADE-INSET CINNABAR LACQUER MOONFLASK

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A RARE IMPERIAL JADE-INSET CINNABAR LACQUER MOONFLASK
INCISED AND GILT QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Each face mounted with a convex white jade plaque of even tone carved with figures in landscape settings, surrounded by a carved lacquer border with eight lotus medallions, with classic lotus-scrolls to the sides, around the neck and foot, the handles carved as arched sceptres, the base encircled by a key-fret border, the inner neck and ring foot lined with gilt-metal (losses and minor repairs)
9 1/2 in. (15 cm.) high, stand

Lot Essay

Jade plaques were frequently set within other media to embellish decorative objects and furniture. Cf. the plaques set within a gilt mount on a wooden ruyi sceptre illustrated in Tributes from Guangdong to the Qing Court, p. 95, pl. 73 and those set into a cloisonne ruyi sceptre in Chinese Cloisonne, The Clague Collection, p. 99, pl. 42.

Compare also the Ming Dynasty cloisonne moonflask inset with jade dragons illustrated in Masterpieces of Chinese Enamel Ware in the National Palace Museum, pl. 12.

(US$30,000-40,000)

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