CHINE, DYNASTIE QING (1644-1911)

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RARE ET IMPORTANT VASE COUVERT ET SA BASE EN EMAUX CLOISONNES, GUI
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING (1644-1911)
La panse et le couvercle sont ornés de masques de taotie en réserve sur fond turquoise rehaussé de grecques. Le col est orné de chilong stylisés. Les anses en bronze doré sont moulées d'une tête d'animaux fantastiques d'où émergent deux frises de grecques. La base du gui est rehaussée d'une marque en relief à six caractères dans un rectangle de l'Empereur Qianlong. Le socle carré est également orné de masques de taotie et de chilong stylisés sur fond turquoise rehaussé de grecques.
Hauteur totale avec le socle: 35 cm. (13 ¾ in.)

Provenance

Property from an important European private collection, in the collection prior to 1981.

Literature

Dr. Gunhild Gabbert Avitabile, Die Ware aus dem Teufelsland, Chinesische und japanische Cloisonné – und Champlevé-Arbeiten von 1400 bis 1900, Germany, 1981, cat. no. 80.

Special notice

This item will be transferred to an offsite warehouse after the sale. Please refer to department for information about storage charges and collection details.

Further details

A RARE AND IMPORTANT CLOISONNE ENAMEL VASE AND COVER AND ITS BASE，GUI
CHINA, QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)

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Lot Essay

The shape and decoration of this rare cloisonné vessel, are based on early bronze prototypes, especially those of Western Zhou dynasty date, such as the bronze gui on stand in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections. While the shape of the Sackler gui and its tall integral base are similar, the decoration of long-tailed birds is not. The taotie mask decoration of the cloisonné gui is of the type more usually found on Western Zhou bronze gui.
See a closely related Qianlong cloisonne enamel archaistic gui on a square stand, bearing an incised Qianlong mark, of similar size (37 cm. high), sold in Christie's New York, 29 March 2006, lot 306.
Also see a scholarly version of miniature cloisonne enamel gui, measuring 11.1 cm high, bearing a Qianlong cast four-character mark within double-squares, sold in Christie's Hong Kong, 30 May 2012, lot 4021.

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