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A rare pair of painted enamel and repousse decorated boxes and…
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Auction Location:
Melbourne
Date:
24-Oct-2018
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Description:
A rare pair of painted enamel and repousse decorated boxes and covers Qing dynasty, each of oval quatre-lobed form with shallow rounded sides supported on a short straight foot, the domed cover painted in bright enamels with a pair of song birds in flight and perched on ornamental rockwork among flowering peonies, and a gnarled pine tree growing to one side, all within a repousse frieze of flowers and foliage reserved on a bright blue enamel ground around the sides, the base and interior in white, the copper showing traces of gilding, wood stands, (6), 25.5 cm wide. Provenance: The Ross Gordon Collection. Private Collection, Queensland, acquired from the above on 19 March 1978, Compare with a repousse decorated blue enamel multi-lobed box and cover in the V&A Museum, illustrated by Sir Harry Garner, Chinese and Japanese Cloisonne Enamels, pl. 78 and described p. 93
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Oriental: Zother