A LARGE CHINESE IMPERIAL CLOISONNE ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE MEIPING

A LARGE CHINESE IMPERIAL CLOISONNE ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE MEIPING
QIANLONG 1736-95

The body decorated with four turquoise-ground quatrefoil panels, each depicting a small butterfly above flowering peony growing from blue, black and white rocks, set against a diaper ground comprising cobalt blue honeycomb cells enclosing yellow florets, the shoulder with eight ruyi-head shaped panels containing lotus below a band of blue key fret, flowers and small pendent lappets, the lower section with green and red stiff leaves above further lappets, the foot, rim, base and wire cloisons gilded, 3.8kg, 37.2cm.

Provenance: the collection of Alfred Morrison (1821-97), Fonthill House, Wiltshire, Fonthill Heirlooms no.253 (label now lacking), and then John Granville Morrison (1906-96), 1st Baron Margadale of Islay and thence by direct descent to the present owner.

Cf. The Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Enamels 3, p.131, no.96 for another turquoise-ground meiping dated to the mid-Qing dynasty.

清乾隆 御製銅胎掐絲琺瑯開光花卉紋梅瓶
來源：由Alfred Morrison（1821-97）收藏，英國威爾特郡放山居莊園，放山居家傳收藏編號253（標籤已失），隨後由John Granville Morrison（1906-96），第一代馬加代爾男爵繼承，之後由其後人繼承。