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A SMALL MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID BLACK-LACQUERED VASE

Lot 3025
29.11.2022 13:30UTC +08:00
Classic
Starting price
HKD 700 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationHong Kong, Hong Kong
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ID 861934
Lot 3025 | A SMALL MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID BLACK-LACQUERED VASE
Estimate value
HKD 700 000 – 900 000
A SMALL MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID BLACK-LACQUERED VASE

QIANLONG TWO-CHARACTER SEAL MARK WITHIN A RECTANGLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

The baluster vase is with tapered sides that rise to a trumpet neck and flared rim. The metal body is decorated with mother-of-pearl and gold foils with spiral panels, all between lappet bands at the shoulder and around the base. The neck is decorated with floral scrolls, between decorative bands at the mouth rim and the base of the neck. The interior and recessed base both lacquered in black.

4 3/16 in. (10.7 cm.) high, cloth box





Provenance

Sold at Christie's London, 9 June 1975, lot 131

The Baoyizhai Collection

Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, The Baoyizhai Collection of Chinese Lacquer- Part I, 8 April 2014, lot 53



Literature

Art Museum, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000 Years of Chinese Lacquer, 1993, no. 98

Art Museum, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Layered Beauty: The Baoyizhai Collection of Chinese Lacquer, 2010, no. 29



Exhibited

Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong, Art Museum, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000 Years of Chinese Lacquer, 24 September – 21 November 1993

Art Museum, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Layered Beauty: The Baoyizhai Collection of Chinese Lacquer, 20 November 2010- June 2011
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