Lot Essay
Previously sold in our London Rooms, 6 December 1993, lot 165, and again at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 2 November 1994, lot 325.
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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A RARE PAIR OF CLOISONNE ENAMEL OCTAGONAL JARDINIERES
Details
A RARE PAIR OF CLOISONNE ENAMEL OCTAGONAL JARDINIERES
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
Each of square form with canted corners, inset on each of the eight facets with a gilt-bronze relief panel cast with a central shou character surrounded by bats amidst clouds, encircled by a colourful lotus meander on a bright turquoise ground, below the everted rim cast with key-fret and enamelled with further lotus scrolls, the underside with scattered prunus blossoms, all raised on eight bracket feet
8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm.) wide (2)
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
Each of square form with canted corners, inset on each of the eight facets with a gilt-bronze relief panel cast with a central shou character surrounded by bats amidst clouds, encircled by a colourful lotus meander on a bright turquoise ground, below the everted rim cast with key-fret and enamelled with further lotus scrolls, the underside with scattered prunus blossoms, all raised on eight bracket feet
8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm.) wide (2)
Provenance
Sir Reginald Tower, KCMG, reputedly acquired from the Forbidden City, Beijing, during the Boxer Rebellion, and by descent