ID 960175
Lot 2845 | A PAINTED ENAMEL HEXAGONAL INKWELL AND COVER
Estimate value
HKD 200 000 – 300 000
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
The inkwell is decorated on each side with either a landscape or riverscape scene featuring figures in different pursuits, and flanked by a gilt-bronze dragon handle to one side. The funnel-shaped cover is decorated with three archaistic dragons around the central aperture.
3 1/2 in. (9 cm.) wide across handle
Provenance
The Reginald and Lena Palmer Collection
Literature
M. Gillingham, Chinese Painted Enamels: an exhibition held in the [Ashmolean Museum] Department of Eastern Art, Oxford, 1978, p. 30, cat. no 29 (Fig. 1)
Exhibited
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, Chinese Painted Enamels, An Exhibition held in the Department of Eastern Art, June-July 1978
| Historical era: | Qianlong period |
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| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Historical era: | Qianlong period |
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| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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