A RARE PAIR OF IMPERIAL ENAMEL BOAT-FORM TRAYS MARKS AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG | 清乾隆 御製廣東銅胎綠地畫琺瑯花卉紋茶船一對 《乾隆年製》款
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October 9, 08:09 AM GMT
Estimate
300,000 - 400,000 HKD
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A RARE PAIR OF IMPERIAL ENAMEL BOAT-FORM TRAYS
MARKS AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG
清乾隆 御製廣東銅胎綠地畫琺瑯花卉紋茶船一對
《乾隆年製》款
each decorated on the interior and exterior in bright enamels with floral scrollwork against a lime-green ground, the base enamelled white and inscribed with a four-character reign mark, the rim mounted with a gilt-metal band
19.7 cm, 7 ¾ in.
A French private collection.
法國私人收藏
It is rare to find any tray of this boat form, probably created at workshops in Guangzhou and sent as tribute to the Imperial court, and it is even rarer to find a pair of such quality. An individual example of similar size, also bearing a four-character Qianlong mark within a double square, was included by Michael Gillingham in the exhibition Chinese Painted Enamels, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1978, cat. no. 73. See also another pair, enamelled on a blue ground, sold at Sotheby's Olympia, 16th November 2001, lot 337.