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QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
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A GILT-BRONZE ‘LOTUS’ BEEHIVE-FORM WATER POT
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
The domed vessel is elaborately decorated with two bands of meandering lotus scrolls, encircling a band of ruyi heads around the mouth rim. The base has an apocryphal six character Xuande mark to the centre, with a smaller incised mark to the edge of the foot rim reading Qianzi shierhao (Qian character, number twelve).
3 ¼ in. (8.3 cm.) diam.
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
The domed vessel is elaborately decorated with two bands of meandering lotus scrolls, encircling a band of ruyi heads around the mouth rim. The base has an apocryphal six character Xuande mark to the centre, with a smaller incised mark to the edge of the foot rim reading Qianzi shierhao (Qian character, number twelve).
3 ¼ in. (8.3 cm.) diam.
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