A PAINTED ENAMEL HEXAGONAL INKWELL AND COVER

Lot 2845
30.05.2023 05:00UTC +00:00
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HKD 226 800
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Lot 2845 | A PAINTED ENAMEL HEXAGONAL INKWELL AND COVER
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HKD 200 000 – 300 000
A PAINTED ENAMEL HEXAGONAL INKWELL AND COVER

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
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