Porte chapeau en porcelaine doucai Chine, Dynastie Qing, époque Qianlong (1736-1795)

formé d'un globe ajouré à décor de chauve-souris dans les nuages supporté par un mat central sur une base qadrilobée avec quatre contreforts de dragons archaïsants, le pied curviligne reposant sur des pieds ruyi, le pourtour à décor en différents registres de rinceaux de lotus alternés de frises de grecques et bandes de cartouches ruyi en émaux polychromes doucai et or

Collection Emile Guimet, référence EG 973. Dans la famille depuis.

There is an old repair to the upper section of the mat, below the band of lotus petals supporting the globe (a line is showing on the illustration in the catalogue). A hairline crack is extending vertically from this break onto the lotus petals with small repaints. The plug on the top of the globe was probably originally made of porcelain and is now replaced with a later wood and carved jade shou medallion knob. There is some rubbing to the gilding along the upper edge of the base and around the aperture on top of the globe. The inside of the globe is of a light turquoise tone.
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Compare a hat stand of similar form in fencai enamels decorated with reticulated medallions of archaïstic dragons and bats amidst swirling clouds, marked Qianlong, in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection, Forbidden City Publishing House, Beijing, 1989, plate 110. p.428.