ID 437126
Lot 246 | A PAIR OF MONUMENTAL CHINESE CLOISONNE ENAMEL VASES, ON STAN...
Estimate value
£ 50 000 – 80 000
FIRST HALF 20TH CENTURY
Each with brass lip blue painted with geometric leiwen bands, above a waisted neck with lotus lappets and intertwined dragons, Shou characters and a double gourd collar with symbols of the Eight Precious Things, each bulbous body exuberantly decorated to one side with a pair of pheasants standing on rockwork amidst peonies and chrysanthemums, and the other side with cranes, exotic birds and spotted deer amidst lotus, peony and prunus flowers, all on a cloud waved Cobalt blue ground, tapering to a convex socle band with symbols of the Eight Precious Things, on a ruyi and arabesque decorated spreading circular foot, raised on an relief-carved ebonised lacquered pine stand
6 feet 8 in. (203 cm.) high; 30 in. (76 cm. diameter), the vases
8 feet 3 ½ in. (253 cm.) high; 36 in. (92 cm.) diameter, with stands
| Medium: | Acrylic glass |
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| Auction house category: | Vases and vessels |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass |
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| Auction house category: | Vases and vessels |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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