Asian Art I - 13th November 2013
Lot 67
A fine and rare pair of large Chinese caparisoned cloisonné elephants Jiaqing 1796-1820
Estimate £80,000 - £120,000
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Description
A fine and rare pair of large Chinese caparisoned cloisonné elephants Jiaqing 1796-1820, each standing four-square, its head turned slightly with a curling trunk, the wrinkled skin depicted with linear cloisons on a white ground, each pachyderm supporting a wide, elaborate saddle carpet on its back, decorated with cranes and pavilions amidst cloud scrolls above crashing waves, upon which a large beribboned gourd-shaped vase rests, the saddle and vase with a scrolling foliate lotus design bordered by cobalt-blue key fret, all reserved on a turquoise ground, 31cm high. (2)
Provenance: Sir James Haldane Stewart Lockhart KCMG (1858-1937), and thence by descent. Collected in China c.1900.
Cf. S Airlie, Thistle and Bamboo, The Life and Times of Sir James Stewart Lockhart. And also M Holdsworth and C Munn, Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography for further information about Sir James Haldane Stewart Lockhart.
清 銅胎掐絲珐琅太平有象 一對
來源： 詹姆斯·哈德納·斯圖爾特·羅卡特（1858-1937）家族收藏，1900年代從中國獲得。
詹姆斯·哈德納·斯圖爾特·羅卡特（1858-1937）出生於英國蘇格蘭，1878年開始成為香港殖民地的候補軍官成員之一。經過多年的努力，在1902年他晉升為英國駐威海衛（今山東威海市）專員，在香港及威海衛的工作期間他對中國藝術品產生了濃厚的興趣，他收藏的部分書畫和錢幣如今在蘇格蘭國家博物館展出。他退役回到倫敦之後被倫敦大學亞非學院聘請為榮譽講師，并參與策劃了1935年的倫敦中國藝術品展。