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of compressed globular form rising from three tapering cylindrical legs to a short neck with everted rim, upturned loop handles issuing from gilt-metal monster masks on the shoulder, vibrant pink, blue, green, and turquoise enamels enlivening the peony scroll around the yellowground body, the peony and scrollwork motifs repeated on the legs, petal lappets and ruyi heads on the shoulder, foliated details on the neck and handles, the galleried rim inset with glass ‘jewels,’ the ground painted with fi ne horizontal lines overall, the underside of the body with a four-character Qianlong mark in iron-red, the giltmetal lobed domed cover pierced with scrolling lotus and shou characters, the openwork fi nial with a coiled dragon and ‘fi aming pearl’ amongst clouds surmounted by a carved coral chilong, later gilt stand (3)
Height 14 in., 35.6 cm
PROVENANCE
Off ered at Sotheby’s New York, 11th May 1978, lot 78.
Collection of Andrew F. Chandler, Los Angeles. Painted enamel Qianlong four-character marks of this type can be seen on a blue-ground painted enamel ‘prunus’ vase, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Metal-bodied Enamel Ware, Hong Kong, 2002, pl. 214, and a painted enamel you vessel, included in the Chinese University of Hong Kong exhibition, op. cit., cat. no. 42.
清乾隆 銅胎畫琺瑯黃地牡丹紋嵌料朝天耳三足熏爐
《乾隆年製》款
來源
上拍於紐約蘇富比1978年5月11日，編號78
Andrew F. Chandler 收藏，洛杉磯
