CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, XVIIIEME SIECLE

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PAIRE DE VASES EN EMAUX DE CANTON DE BASSE TAILLE, ZHADOU
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, XVIIIEME SIECLE
Chaque vase est recouvert d'un émail bleu translucide richement décoré à l'or des Huits Emblemes Bouddhiques, bajixiang, sur sa panse ovoide et son col évasé entre des frises de feuilles et de pendeloques. L'intérieur est orné à l'or de bandeaux fleuris et d'un medaillon central rehaussé d'une feuille.
Hauteurs: 10 cm. (4 in.); boîte

Provenance

Christie's Hong Kong, 27 May 2008, lot 1877
Christie's Hong Kong, 29 May 2013, lot 2158

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Additional costs of 5.5% including tax of the auction price will be taken in addition to the usual costs charged to the buyer. These additional costs are likely to be reimbursed to the buyer on presentation of proof of export of the batch outside the Union European within the legal deadlines (See the "VAT" section of Terms of sale)

Further details

A PAIR OF BASSE-TAILLE CANTON ENAMEL SECTIONAL ZHADOU
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

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Lot Essay

The Canton workshops developed this refined technique of using transparent enamel over a patterned metal body towards the end of the 18th century. It can be seen on a number of pieces in the Palace Museum in Beijing that were presented to the court as tributes from Guandong officials. Compare a basin similarly decorated with The Eight Buddhist Emblems using the same technique included in the joint 1987 exhibition held by the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Palace Museum, Beijing, Tributes from Guandong to the Qing Court, and illustrated in the Catalogue, p. 89, no. 56. A number of examples in the Palace Museum, Beijing are illustrated in The Complete Treasures of the Palace Museum - Metal-Bodied Enamel Ware, Vol. 43, Hong Kong, 2002, pp. 252-256. nos. 238-241.

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