A RARE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL HEXAGONAL SHRINE

QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A RARE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL HEXAGONAL SHRINE
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
The shrine is made in the shape of a pavilion with five open sides, the back wall fitted with a rectangular plaque finely decorated with two bats swooping amidst the branches of a peach tree bearing nine peaches that grows from a blue rock rising amidst cresting waves. Bells are suspended from the upturned eaves of the separately made, faceted roof, which is decorated with archaistic motifs below the faceted gilt finial. The whole is fitted into a separate, waisted, pedestal base with upper balustrade. Together with is a gilt-bronze figure of a luohan, 18th century, shown seated on an outcropping of rock with his hands clasped.
20 in. (51 cm.) high

Provenance

Shrine: Sotheby's London, 17 October 1978, lot 9.

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Lot Essay

A cloisonné enamel shrine of rectangular pavilion shape (29 9/16 in. high), also raised on a pedestal base and with bells suspended from the roof, which is dated to the Qianlong period, is in the Brooklyn Museum, and illustrated by Bèatrice Quette (ed.) in Cloisonné: Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, Bard Graduate Center, 2011, p. 273, no. 97.

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