GOLD-ENAMEL QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARKS WITHIN SQUARES AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-95)

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A PAIR OF RARE IMPERIAL GOLD AND POLYCHROME-ENAMELLED BUDDHIST ALTAR EMBLEMS
GOLD-ENAMEL QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARKS WITHIN SQUARES AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-95)
Each moulded as a Buddhist Wheel of Law, supported on a spreading plinth with lotus petals in high relief, in imitation of a gilt-bronze or gold original, the reticulated wheel at the centre enriched with turquoise, coral and sapphire-blue enamels to simulate their hardstone counterparts, the mandorla surround relief-moulded with Lamaist iconography
10¾ in. (27.3 cm.) high (2)

來源

T. J. Larkin; Christie's London, 15 July 1918, lot 11.
William Martin-Hurst.
Reginald A. F. Williams, and thence by descent

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拍品專文

A similar Qianlong-marked example was included in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Special Exhibition of Qing Monochromes, 1981, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 74; another from the Nanjing Museum was included in The Art Gallery, the Chinese University of Hong Kong exhibition, Qing Imperial Porcelain of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns, Hong Kong, 1995, Catalogue no. 71; and a pair was sold in our Hong Kong Rooms, The Imperial Sale, 27 April 1997, lot 45; and another 30 May 2005, lot 2188.

A porcelain Wheel of Law can be seen in situ on an altar inside the Fanhua Lou, Building of Buddhist Brilliance, an important Tibetan Buddhist structure built in the late Qianlong period at the northern end of the Ningshou Gong, illustrated in the Catalogue to The Field Museum exhibition, Splendors of China's Forbidden City, The Glorious Reign of Emperor Qianlong, 2004, fig. 163.

Compare also two Jiaqing marked examples, in the Weishaupt Collection, illustrated by G. Avitable, From the Dragon's Treasure, London, 1987, fig. 1; and another sold in our Hong Kong Rooms, 4 November 1996, lot 747.