QING DYNASTY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY

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AN UNUSUAL PAIR OF CHINESE PAINTED ENAMEL AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL LANTERNS
QING DYNASTY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
Each painted to imitate spotted bamboo and inset on the interior with thin mother-of-pearl sheets, together with two later red lacquered and gilt stands (electrified)
11 ¾ in. (29.8 cm.) high

Provenance

Speelman Oriental Art, London, 16 June 1983.
Acquired privately from Mrs. Charles Wrightsman.

Literature

E. Eerdmans, Henri Samuel: Master of the French Interior, New York, 2018, pp. 208-9.

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Lot Essay

A similar lantern, possibly one of the present pair, is illustrated in M. Beurdeley, Chinese Furniture, New York, 1979, p. 149, no. 201.

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