The Three Emperors: Imperial Porcelain of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong reigns from the Yidetang Collection

The Three Emperors: Imperial Porcelain of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong reigns from the Yidetang Collection

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 31. A rare pair of yellow-ground famille-rose candlesticks, Seal marks and period of Qianlong | 清乾隆 粉彩黃地纏枝蓮紋八吉祥燭臺一對 《大清乾隆年製》款.

A rare pair of yellow-ground famille-rose candlesticks, Seal marks and period of Qianlong | 清乾隆 粉彩黃地纏枝蓮紋八吉祥燭臺一對 《大清乾隆年製》款

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October 12, 11:48 AM GMT

Estimate

2,000,000 - 3,000,000 HKD

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A rare pair of yellow-ground famille-rose candlesticks

Seal marks and period of Qianlong

清乾隆 粉彩黃地纏枝蓮紋八吉祥燭臺一對 《大清乾隆年製》款


each raised on a bell-shaped base and set with a wide drip-pan connected to a smaller upper tray by a tall tapering column, vividly enamelled around the body with the bajixiang alternating with large lotus blooms on dense scrolling leafy stems, with a puce-enamel key-fret band at the foot, dispersed at various intervals with bands of ruyi, interlinked pendant and upright trefoils, dots, and gilt bands, all reserved on a rich lemon-yellow ground, the interior base enamelled turquoise, inscribed to the drip-pan with an iron-red horizontal six-character seal mark within a cartouche

28 cm

Christie's Hong Kong, 2nd November 1999, lot 569.


香港佳士得1999年11月2日,編號569