AN UNUSUAL PAIR OF CANTON ENAMEL YELLOW-GROUND HAT-STANDS

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AN UNUSUAL PAIR OF CANTON ENAMEL YELLOW-GROUND HAT-STANDS
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

Each hat-stand elaborately decorated, the platform with a central knop finial enamelled with floral scrolls on a yellow-ground and surrounded by concentric bands of lappets, feathery scrolls and ruyi, repeated on the reverse, the bulbous mid-section enamelled with bats in flight amidst clouds, and the stepped base with further scroll bands including archaistic chilong, all raised on a zitan stand and four colourful scrollwork legs (enamels retouched)
12 3/4 in. (32.5 cm.) high (2)

拍品專文

Elaborately decorated hatstands such as the present examples would have been placed in the private quarters of the Emperor and members of his family. A comparable painted enamel yellow-ground hatstand with a ball-shaped upper portion pierced with circular openings, is in the Qing court collection, illustrated in Metal-bodied Enamel Ware, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Commercial Press, Hong Kong, 2002, pl. 211; while a cloisonné enamel example with scrollwork platform and trefoil feet, is illustrated by H. Brinker and A. Lutz, Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry Collection, London, 1989, pl. 266.