AN INSCRIBED IMPERIAL CLOISONNE ENAMEL WALL VASE

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AN INSCRIBED IMPERIAL CLOISONNE ENAMEL WALL VASE
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

The base rising to a wide shoulder, the waisted neck decorated with three gilt-bronze bow-strings, flanked on either side with a gilt-decorated leaf-shaped handle under an everted foliate-shaped mouth rim, the body inscribed with a Qianlong poem in black enamel followed by two sealmarks, all within a gilt panel reserved against a cloud-decorated lapis-blue enamel ground, the vase supported on an integral gilt-bronze stand with ruyi feet, the flat reverse side pierced with apertures for attachment
9 5/8 in. (24.5 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

Imperial wall vases with gilt panels can be seen in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Enamel Ware in the Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1999, no. 46, p. 124, as well as in the imperial collection at the Qing Summer Palace, Bishu Shanzhuang, in Chengde, illustrated in Zhongguo Meishu Fenlei Quanji: Zhongguo Jinyin Boli Falangqi Quanji Vol. 6, Wenwu Publishing house, Beijing, 1997, no. 76, pg. 55.

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