A CLOISONNE ENAMEL STUPA

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A CLOISONNE ENAMEL STUPA
QIANLONG

The globular upper section decorated on a yellow ground with a lotus meander below a bead design suspending tassels and enclosing prunus-heads, one side pierced with a palmette-shaped portal within a gilt-metal surround, below the tapering gilt and blue spire surmounted by a canopied motif, all above two compressed rectangular lower sections decorated with bands of lotus-meander, C-scrolls, floral-lappets and prunus-heads on a turquoise ground (some infill, end of spire restored)
12 1/4 in. (31cm.) high

Lot Essay

A similar example is illustrated in Chinese Cloisonne: The Pierre Uldry Collection, no.279, and is discussed on p.140-1. For a much larger example see Catalogue of Art, Exhibition of Imperial Court in The Forbidden City, p.100

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