A RARE CHINESE PAINTED ENAMEL SQUARE WINE WARMER AND COVER

YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-1735)

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A RARE CHINESE PAINTED ENAMEL SQUARE WINE WARMER AND COVER
YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-1735)
The sloping body supported on a slightly splayed foot and the flat cover with a central aperture, applied with gilt-bronze swing handles to the top and sides, all finely and delicately decorated with cartouches of figures at leisurely pursuits on the sides, and bats, flowers and foliage reserved on cell-pattern grounds on the top of the cover, the interior decorated with fish and water plants, below bats amongst clouds around the bronze, somewhat ovoid chimney rising from a pierced base
9 5/8 in. (24.4 cm.) square

来源

John Sparks, London, where acquired, 20 June 1978.

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Dido Penny

dpenny@christies.com +44 (0)20 7389 2794

拍品专文

A closely related wine warmer is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (C.111-1947), which has landscape panels and is complete with cover to the chimney. Another, with figural panels but also without chimney-cover, was sold in Christie's New York, 17 September 2007, lot 204.

YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-1735)

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