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A Chinese champleve enamelled gilt bronze Symbolic offering,…
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Melbourne
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24-Sep-2019
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A Chinese champleve enamelled gilt bronze Symbolic offering, Qianlong (1735-1796) or Jiaqing (1796-1820) period, the symbolic altar offering cast in gilt bronze with champleve enamel details, of one of the seven Regal Buddhist symbols, the Queen, here depicted kneeling, her hands before her in anjalimudra, on an elaborate triple-lotus base in Qianlong rococo style, with champleve enamel details, which sits atop a pedestal featuring the character 'Shou', surrounded by four champleve enamel leaves, which in turn sit above an enamelled cosmic ocean, enclosed within a ruyi-motif pierced gallery border above a double lotus base., 37 cm high, 10 cm wide. Provenance: Soo Tze Oriental Antiques, 1999. Literature: for similar pieces please see: a special exhibition of Buddhist gilt votive objects, National Palace Museum, catalogue 22-5, 23-5, 25-5, 26 and 28. And Buddhist Art from Rehol, Jeff Hsu's Oriental Art, 1999, plate 69. Other Notes: Judging from the style of the image, and the quality of the casting and gilding and champleve enamel work, and specifically the style of the lotus base, this work is probably from one of the Imperial temples in Beijing.
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Oriental: Bronze