QIANLONG (1736-1795)

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AN IMPERIAL CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL VASE, HU
QIANLONG (1736-1795)
The broad pear-shaped body with applied mythical beast handles suspending loose rings, decorated with a main band of scrolling lotus connected by ruyi and variously shaped links below a band of ruyi enclosing bats, the neck similarly decorated, the shoulder with a band of linked confronting stylised archaic dragons, all on turquoise grounds, the rims with gilt key-fret bands
16¼ in. (41.3 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

The shape of this vase derives from a known archaic bronze prototype, an example of which, dating to the Early Western Zhou (1046-977 BC) and excavated in 1973 in Liaoning is in the collection of the Liaoning Provincial Museum and is illustrated in Wenwu Congping Dingji Biaozhun tu li - Tongqi juan, Wenwu Chubanshe, Beijing, 2006, p. 126, no. 95.

A comparable example of a cloisonné hu with similar handles was sold in these Rooms, Chinese Porcelains and Enamels from The Alfred Morrison Collection, Fonthill House, 9 November 2004, lot 41. A jade example can be seen illustrated by Roger Keverne in Jade, London, 1991, pl. 132

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