CHINE, DEBUT DE LA DYNASTIE QING, XVIIEME SIECLE

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BOITE A COLLIER EN BRONZE DORE ET EMAUX CLOISONNES
CHINE, DEBUT DE LA DYNASTIE QING, XVIIEME SIECLE
En forme d'anneau ouvrant horizontalement, la boîte et son couvercle à décor identique composé de trois cartouches polylobés ornés en leur centre des caractères shou (Longévité), fu (Bonheur) et lu (Prospérité), entourés chacun de deux grands dragons menaçants, l'ensemble réservé sur fond de treillis losangés jaunes et bleus, le fermoir et la charnière en bronze doré polylobés ; petites restaurations
Diamètre: 18 cm. (7 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Spink & Son Ltd., London, 31 August 1982.

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Further details

A GILT-BRONZE AND CLOISONNE ENAMEL NECKLACE BOX
CHINA, EARLY QING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY

Lot Essay

Compare such necklace box with three identical examples ; one illustrated in H. Brinker and A. Lutz, Chinesische Cloisonné - Die Sammlung Pierre Uldry, Museum Rietberg, Zurich 1985, pl.166 ; another in C. Brown, Chinese Cloisonné - The Clague Collection, Phoenix Art Museum 1980, pp.78-79, pl.31 ; the last one is illustrated by Sir Harry Garner in Chinese and Japanese Cloisonné Enamels, London 1962, pl.63B. Garner has defined a group of intimate objects characterized by a limited colour scheme, evidence of hand craftmanship, a preference for foliate shapes, the appearance of auspicious characters and dragons which recall those of late Zhou dynasty in their curling forms. Thus, the current necklace box clearly belongs to that group.

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