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A cloisonné enamel and champlevé 'Melon and Butterfly' box and cover Qianlong (1736-1795) image 1
A cloisonné enamel and champlevé 'Melon and Butterfly' box and cover Qianlong (1736-1795) image 2
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A cloisonné enamel and champlevé 'Melon and Butterfly' box and cover Qianlong (1736-1795) image 5
Lot 119*

A cloisonné enamel and champlevé 'Melon and Butterfly' box and cover
Qianlong (1736-1795)

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Cornelis Paulus van Pauwvliet: An Important Dutch Collection
21 November 2023, 13:00 GMT
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A cloisonné enamel and champlevé 'Melon and Butterfly' box and cover

Qianlong (1736-1795)
The box of oblong shape, finely cast with relief designs of gnarled branches issuing small melons interspersed with leafy tendrils and butterflies, all brightly enamelled in white, red, yellow, green and gold on a turquoise ground decorated with prunus blossoms, 11.3cm (4in) wide

Footnotes

清乾隆 銅胎掐絲琺瑯瓜瓞綿綿紋蓋盒

Provenance
Pranger Oriental Art, 1 November 2006.

來源
Pranger Oriental Art, 2006年11月1日.

The combination of butterflies and melons in the present lot invokes the rebus of guadie mianmian 瓜瓞綿綿, symbolising the good wish for numerous descendants. The Chinese character die 蝶 for butterflies is a homophone with the character for little gourds die 瓞，together with melons 瓜 gua become the symbols of fertility because of the large number of their seeds.

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