A CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL RECTANGULAR VASE

18TH CENTURY

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A CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL RECTANGULAR VASE
18TH CENTURY
The square-sectioned vase is flanked by a piar of gilt-bronze chilong handles, and decorated on each facet at the mid-section with a panel of lotus bloom borne on meandering scrolls beneath a bat suspending a qing, with archaistic angular scrollwork on four corners. The neck has a repoussé band of floral sprays above a band of plantain leaves on the shoulder, which are repeated on the pedestal foot.
13 ¼ (33.5 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

The form of the present cloisonné vase, with the tapering, faceted sides and chilong-form handles, is very unusual, and only a few other examples are known. Compare the current example with a closely related pair at the Victoria & Albert Museum, illustrated on its website, with the accession no. 509-1875. See, also, a pair sold at Sotheby's London, 11 November 2015, lot 111.

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