QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A RARE PAIR OF CLOISONNE ENAMEL RECUMBENT MYTHICAL BEASTS
QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
Each of the mythical beasts is modelled recumbent. Each of the striated feline heads is surmounted by elaborate horns and with a short beard resting on a bulging beast. Each beast's jaws is open to expose fangs, its body decorated with tendrils radiating from florettes all against a turquoise ground. The haunches are detailed with overlapping feathers. The feathered under-belly is decorated in pink enamel and cast with a square gilt-metal four-character reign mark.
8 1/2 in. (21.5 cm.) across (2)

来源

A & J Speelman Ltd., London, circa late 1970/80s

展览

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Excellence and Elegance: Decorative Arts of the Eighteenth-Century Qing, New York, 25 August-25 November 2007

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Another example of this rare group of auspicious animals, also bearing a Qianlong mark, is in the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in Metal-Bodied Enamel Ware, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2002, p. 123, pl. 119. Whilst the Palace example and the present pair are modelled with lion-form heads, there is a related group of this type with ram-form heads such as the mythical animal included in the exhibition, International Art Treasures Exhibition, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1962, pl. 119, no. 573, and was later sold at Christie's London, 6 December 1993, lot 166; and a related cloisonne enamel mythical beast cast as a censer in the Victoria and Albert Museum Collection, is illustrated by H. Garner, Chinese and Japanese Cloisonne Enamels, London, 1970, pl. 68B.