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A rare cloisonné and champlevé enamel 'bajixiang' vase, hu First half of the 18th century
13 May 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £54,000 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA rare cloisonné and champlevé enamel 'bajixiang' vase, hu
First half of the 18th century
The archaistic vase finely decorated around the globular body with the bajixiang, 'Eight Buddhist Emblems', interspersed with lotus blossoms issuing scrolling tendrils, below a ruyi-head border, the tapering neck set with a pair of champlevé enamel qilin and decorated with leafy lotus blossoms below a band of pendent lappets enclosing bats suspending a musical stone.
36.6cm (14⅜in) high.
The archaistic vase finely decorated around the globular body with the bajixiang, 'Eight Buddhist Emblems', interspersed with lotus blossoms issuing scrolling tendrils, below a ruyi-head border, the tapering neck set with a pair of champlevé enamel qilin and decorated with leafy lotus blossoms below a band of pendent lappets enclosing bats suspending a musical stone.
36.6cm (14⅜in) high.
Footnotes
Provenance: an Italian private collection, Lombardy, collection no.93.
Compare a related large cloisonné and champlevé enamel censer and cover, attributed to the early 18th century (censer) and mid to late 18th century (cover), decorated with lotus scrolls and adorned with fish-dragon handles, illustrated in C.Brown, Chinese Cloisonné: The Clague Collection, Phoenix Art Museum, 1980, pl.43.














