18TH CENTURY

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A RARE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL DOUBLE JAR AND COVER
18TH CENTURY
The vessel is made in the shape of two jars joined in the middle, each raised on a spreading foot encircled by a petal-lappet band, and decorated around the bulbous sides with leafy foliate scroll bearing large lotus blossoms that alternate in their use of colors, below small lotus sprays on the waisted neck. Each jar has a matching domed cover that is spanned and joined by the body of a gilt, horned dragon, its front and back feet braced on the opposite covers, and its head turned to face outwards in the middle.
6½ in. (16.5 cm.) wide

Provenance

Christie's Hong Kong, 24 October 1993, lot 525.

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Lot Essay

A similar type of double cover joined by a very similar gilt-bronze dragon is seen on a cloisonné enamel 'champion vase' illustrated by Claudia Brown in Chinese Cloisonné: The Clague Collection, Phoenix Art Museum, 1980, pp. 92-93, pl. 39, where the vase is dated to the first half of the eighteenth century.

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