Sale 1639
New York
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29 March 2006
Price realised
USD 22,800
Estimate
AN UNUSUAL CLOISONNE ENAMEL HU-SHAPED VASE AND COVER JIAQING PERIOD (1796-1820) The pear-shaped body decorated with an allover pattern of lotus scroll between lappet borders, with a pair of unusual gilt-bronze dragon-form handles and raised on a shallow foot decorated with lotus sprays, the base covered in turquoise-blue enamel, the domed cover similarly decorated below a lobed globular finial 17 in. (43.2 cm.) high
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