QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A PAINTED ENAMEL HANDWARMER AND COVER
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
The handwarmer is of lobed and barbed outline and with a hinged handle rising from the shoulder. Painted on the two sides with a scene of three goats in a landscape and on the two ends with a long-tailed bird perched on a rose branch, all within shaped cartouches reserved on a blue ground scattered with flower sprigs below a ruyi band. The gilt-metal cover is similarly decorated and pierced with a design of wan diaper.
7 ½ in. (19 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

This unusual handwarmer is very similar to one included in the exhibition, Chinese Painted Enamels of the 18th Century, The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York, October 1993, no. 23, which is identified as being of Guangzhou manufacture, and made for the domestic rather than the export market. This opinion is also shared by Yang Boda, in his discussion of a similar pink-ground handwarmer included in the exhibition, Tributes from Guangdong to the Qing Court, The Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1987, no. 47, where he states, p. 54, that the handwarmer was a "typical Guangzhou product" in the Qianlong period.

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