Lot 237
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A RARE IMPERIAL PAINTED ENAMEL ENCRUSTED GILT-BRONZE DA JI DOUBLE-GOURD FRAMED PANEL
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A RARE IMPERIAL PAINTED ENAMEL ENCRUSTED GILT-BRONZE DA JI DOUBLE-GOURD FRAMED PANEL

QIANLONG/JIAQING PERIOD, CIRCA 1800

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A RARE IMPERIAL PAINTED ENAMEL ENCRUSTED GILT-BRONZE DA JI DOUBLE-GOURD FRAMED PANEL
QIANLONG/JIAQING PERIOD, CIRCA 1800
The double-gourd panel finely enamelled with the characters Da Ji in red and reserved on a diaper ground painted with floating blooms, tied at the waist with a gilt-bronze ribbon painted with small delicate blooms reserved on an incised diaper ground, the top of the gourd supporting a gilt-bronze canopy, the base with a painted enamel frieze with the Eight Buddhist Emblems, bajixiang, and supporting long beaded strings with fish, bats and fruit pendants, all supported on a gilt-bronze hard-paste gem inlaid lotus base, the wood frame embellished with shapely cartouches and hard-paste gems
35¾ in. x 23 in. (91 cm. x 85.5 cm.)

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Lot Essay

Compare a hanging screen applied with a number of different objects, including an enamel vase inscribed da ji and a lantern with long pearl tassels, with a carved wood frame, which is illustrated in Life in the Forbidden City, Beijing, 2009, pl. 368, where other screens can be seen pls. 214 and 175, together with a figure on a base inlaid with large pale lotus petals, pl. 216. See also a virtually identical framed panel sold at Sotheby's London, 12 June 1990, lot 129.

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