LATE 18TH/19TH CENTURY

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A RARE PAIR OF CLOISONNE ENAMEL FIGURES OF FEMALE IMMORTALS
LATE 18TH/19TH CENTURY
Each immortal is standing on a shaped pedestal decorated with grasses and rocks, with a separate, gilt-metal celestial scarf billowing over the shoulders, and dressed in finely detailed, layered garments tied with a sash at the waist. Each holds a lingzhi branch in one hand and carries a basket suspended from a hoe held over her shoulder with the other hand. One immortal is accompanied by a crane standing to one side, and the other with a deer.
15¼ in. (38.6 cm.) high (2)

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Lot Essay

Figural representations in cloisonné enamel appear to be extremely rare and only a few related examples appear to have been published. A pair of seated female figures, from the A.W. Bahr Collection, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, dated to the Qianlong period or later, which share a very similar rendering of the facial features to those of the present figures, are illustrated by B. Quette, Cloisonné: Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming and Qing, Singapore, 2011, p. 297, no. 142. Compare, also, a pair of cloisonné figures of ladies sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 30 May 2012, lot 3927.

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