Description
A CHINESE CLOISONNE 'LOTUS' VASE
QIANLONG MARK AND OF THE PERIOD 1736-95
The pear-shaped body with a slightly tapering neck, decorated with stylised lotus flowerheads and scrolling foliage on a turquoise ground and a band of ruyi-heads around the rim, a five character mark to the base which reads Qian Long nian zhi deng, 12cm.
Provenance: from the collection of Mr George Athenogenes, London.
Cf. H Brinker and A Lutz, Chinese Cloisonné, the Pierre Uldry Collection, no.285 for a closely related example. See also The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Metal-bodied Enamel Ware, vol. XIVIII pp.24, no.22 and p.84, no.81 for other examples.
