A CHAMPLEVE AND GILT-BRONZE ENAMELLED DOUBLE-VASE AND STAND
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A CHAMPLEVE AND GILT-BRONZE ENAMELLED DOUBLE-VASE AND STAND

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A CHAMPLEVE AND GILT-BRONZE ENAMELLED DOUBLE-VASE AND STAND
QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER MARK AND CYCLICAL BINGWU DATE, CORRESPONDING TO A.D. 1786 AND OF THE PERIOD

The conjoined vases of upright elongated oval shape each rising from a separate circular foot, decorated with animal mask-handles, elaborately embraced around the exterior with gilt dragons and phoenix in relief against a lotus-scroll enamel and gilt-ground, the detachable double socle similarly decorated and enamelled, standing on eight ruyi feet
8 1/2 in. (21.7 cm.) high
Provenance
Previously sold at Christie's New York, 1 June 1990, lot 103

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Lot Essay

A very similar double-vase is illustrated by H. Brinker and A. Lutz, Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry Collection, The Asia Society Galleries, New York, 1989, no. 304, which has the same marks; another very similar double vase of the same size was sold at Christie's London, 13 May 2008, lot 53; and another example, dated 1786, was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 26-27 April 1998, lot 562.

Compare also related gilt-bronze and gilt-splashed double-vases of this form, such as a gilt-splashed example from the W.W. Winkworth Collection sold at Christie's London, 16 November 1999, lot 106, and a gilt-splashed double-vase in the Robert H. Clague Collection illustrated by R. Mowry, China's Renaissance in Bronze, Phoenix, 1993, p. 190, no. 40.

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