Lot 869
  • 869

A SMALL CLOISONNE ENAMEL 'LOTUS' VASE QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD |

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • Height 5 in., 12.8 cm
resting on a narrow splayed foot rising to angular shoulders below a slim cylindrical neck and everted rim, each side enameled with a stylized red and white lotus blooming from an archaistic bracket-form scroll below a further scroll of leafy tendrils, the shoulders with pink lotus blooms below a band of stiff green leaves at the neck, held together by a string of red 'beads', all reserved on a bright turquoise ground, the rim, footring, and chevron band around the shoulder gilded 

Provenance

Roger Keverne Ltd., London, 2016.