CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, MARQUE INCISEE A QUATRE CARACTERES ET EPOQUE QIANLONG (1736-1795)

细节

PAIRE DE VASES MINIATURES EN BRONZE DORE ET EMAUX CLOISONNES, GU
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, MARQUE INCISEE A QUATRE CARACTERES ET EPOQUE QIANLONG (1736-1795)
Le cornet et le pied de forme évasée, décorés de frises de feuilles, lotus et volutes, la partie centrale renflée, ornée de deux dragons kui affrontés et motifs géométriques, l'intérieur du col rehaussé de quatre lotus, la base portant la marque incisée à quatre caractères de l'Empereur Qianlong dans un double carré
Hauteur: 9,9 cm. (3 7/8 in.) (2)

来源

Spink & Son Ltd., London.

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A PAIR OF GILT-BRONZE AND CLOISONNE ENAMEL MINIATURE VASES GU
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, INCISED QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

拍品专文

Miniature vessels such as the present lot were particularly appreciated by the literati class. They were valued for their high artistic content, revealing at once technical perfection and aesthetic refinement combined with multiple layers of symbolism, thus stimulating the senses and the mind at the same time. They were displayed in collector's cabinets (also referred to as 'multi-tiered' treasure boxes) which were placed in the scholar's studio, as depicted in numerous genre paintings from the Ming to Qing periods. With the evolving trend towards displaying aesthetic rather than functional objects in the cabinets, this taste for the miniature reached its apogee under the reign of Qianlong.

Compare this very sweet pair of miniature Gu vases with another one bearing also a square four-character Qianlong mark, although slightly taller, illustrated in C. Brown, Chinese Cloisonné - The Clague Collection, Phoenix Art Museum, 1980, pp.118-119, pl.52.