A PAIR OF MONUMENTAL CHINESE CLOISONNE ENAMEL VASES, ON STAN...

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£ 62 500
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12.11.2020 14:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 246 | A PAIR OF MONUMENTAL CHINESE CLOISONNE ENAMEL VASES, ON STAN...
A PAIR OF MONUMENTAL CHINESE CLOISONNE ENAMEL VASES, ON STANDS

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

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