A FINE AND RARE CHAMPLEVE ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE GARLIC-HEAD VASE

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A FINE AND RARE CHAMPLEVE ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE GARLIC-HEAD VASE
18TH CENTURY

The vase is cast with a long sinuous chilong coiled around the compressed globular body and tall neck, its head resting below the lobed garlic-head mouth, the exterior of the vase decorated in champlevé against a gilt ground with elaborate stylised lotus scrolls with colourful petals and curly leaves, repeated around the garlic-head and splayed foot, the mouth encircled by a key-fret pattern below the dotted everted rim
11 1/2 in. (29.2 cm.) high

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Garlic-head vases of this form with applied dragons coiled around the elongated necks were popular in various media, cf. a Yongzheng period coral-red and gilt decorated porcelain vase, from the E.T. Chow Collection, sold in Hong Kong, 22 November 1980, lot 83; and a 17th century cloisonné enamel vase in the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in Zhongguo Meishu Quanji, vol 10, The Crafts, Gold, Silver, Glass and Enamels, pl. 303, where a candlestick and a censer from a related champlevé enamel garniture are also illustrated, ibid, pls. 356 and 357.

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