CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, EPOQUE QIANLONG (1736-1795)

These carved polychrome lacquer emblems are very rare. We only know five examples including these two. One from the Derek Clifford collection has been published in Derek Clifford, Chinese Carved Lacquer, London, 1992, pl. 97 and was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 7 April 2015, lot 3624. Two other emblems are in the Museum of Lacquer Art in Münster, Germany but are so far unpublished (they are visible on the Museum website). However, porcelain examples full sets of eight emblems exist. They also exist in bronze and in gilt-lacquered wood, for example see two gilt-lacquered wood buddhist emblems we sold at Christie's Paris, 12 December 2019, lot 89.