Lot 638
638
AN UNUSUAL CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL EWER AND COVER
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DAVID B. PECK III
AN UNUSUAL CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL EWER AND COVER

19TH CENTURY

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AN UNUSUAL CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL EWER AND COVER
19TH CENTURY
The tapering body has six vertical lobes decorated with petal-shaped panels of butterflies and flower-filled vases reserved on a gilt-wire leiwen ground, while the slender curved handle and spout are decorated with blue scale pattern. The domed cover is decorated with a row of dots and overlapping petals below an entwined prunus branch that forms the finial.
7 in. (18 cm.) high
Provenance
Gerard Hawthorne Ltd., London, 1998.
Exhibited
Gerard Hawthorne Ltd., London, Oriental Works of Art, June 1998, no. 19.

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Lot Essay

A painted enamel ewer of this same tapering, lobed shape, also with decorative panels on a diaper ground, is illustrated by M. Gillingham in Chinese Painted Enamels, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1978, no. 56, where it is dated as being from the early Qianlong period. See, also, the parcel-gilt silver wine ewer of similar shape, with a prunus sprig finial on the cover, included in the catalogue, Oriental Works of Art, The Oriental Art Gallery Ltd., London, December 1992, no. 40, where it is dated 17th-18th century.

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