A MAGNIFICENT PAIR OF CHINESE CLOISONNE ENAMEL AND GILT-COPPER TIBETAN-STYLE EWERS, DUOMUHU

Lot 8
07.07.2022 17:00UTC +00:00
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£ 176 400
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Lot 8 | A MAGNIFICENT PAIR OF CHINESE CLOISONNE ENAMEL AND GILT-COPPER TIBETAN-STYLE EWERS, DUOMUHU
Valeur estimée
£ 150 000 – 250 000
A MAGNIFICENT PAIR OF CHINESE CLOISONNE ENAMEL AND GILT-COPPER TIBETAN-STYLE EWERS, DUOMUHU

KANGXI PERIOD, 17TH CENTURY

Each with tall cylindrical body divided into four sections and separated by raised bands with incised foliate scrolls, each register adorned with five-clawed polychrome-enamelled dragons of blue, yellow and aubergine chasing flaming pearls on a turquoise ground with ruyi-shaped clouds and fire scrolls, above foaming waves crashing against rocks, the S-shaped handle modelled as a fish with the head of a dragon opposite the spout with a mythical beast-head terminal, the knopped cover decorated with a red dragon encircling a flaming pearl

24 1⁄2 in. (62 cm.) high; 15 in. (38 cm.) diameter





Provenance

Jacques Barrère, Paris, 1982.



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