A Cloisonné Enamel Faceted Vase

掐絲琺琅皮球花紋盤螭龍賞瓶
the faceted walls rising from a hexagonal foot, each facet decorated bats reserved in white-ground lobed roundels, the shoulders with smaller 'longevity' roundels, the ground with a profusion of radiant flowers heads against a turquoise ground, with ruyi bands at the foot and mouth. Further appointed with a gilt bronze chilong clambering the neck, drilled to the underside through a Qianlong mark, and mounted as a lamp.

Height of vase 11 in., 28 cm.

Provenance:

Acquired from a San Francisco estate

The underside drilled, mounted as a lamp.

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Ms. Wu joined the firm in 2014, after working as a specialist in the Asian Works of Art Department of an East Coast auction house. She researches, appraises, and sells Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, and South East Asian works of art, including jades, bronzes, ceramics, paintings, armor, and furniture. Throughout her career, Ms. Wu has achieved record prices for several prominent estates and collections, including the Estate of Frank G. Mertes, Sr., Winona, Minnesota; the Chinese Painting Collection of Ms. Yuan Jiaying and Mr. Li Guoyuan, Chicago; the Estate of Hisazo Nagatani, Chicago, and the Asian Art Collection deaccessioned from the Strong Museum of Play, Rochester, New York.

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A Cloisonné Enamel Faceted Vase

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