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MARCHANT

Specialist in Antique Asian Art

Cloisonné & Works of Art
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A Chinese cloisonné circular dish with flat everted rim decorated with a pair of mandarin ducks standing amongst branches of lingzhi fungus and turquoise ground rockwork beneath a large lotus leaf, flower and bud on elegant dark green branches with curved leaves together with arrowheads and smaller buds on a white ground all encircled by a band of five petal, red and white scrolling flowers all on a turquoise ground.
A Chinese Imperial Beijing-enamel yellow-ground famille rose, fencai ovoid jar and domed cover with recessed base and short cylindrical neck, delicately enamelled with peonies and passion flowers on scrolling branches with leaves and buds beneath a simulated brocade sash tied in a large bow at the front and decorated with butterfly medallions between double peach sprays on a diaper ground covering four lobed lotus flowerhead pale blue-ground panels at the shoulder and beneath a band of twelve pendant lingzhi at the neck, the yellow-ground cover with peony flowerheads beneath a blue ruyi-head band and gilt bud finial.
A Chinese gilt bronze seated bare foot figure of Guandi, holding a sword hilt while resting his right hand on his thigh, his left hand raised, wearing finely incised robes with dragon decoration and detailed armour with a shoulder mask, his long hair combed straight at his back.
A Chinese rectangular gilt bronze jardinière of tapered form on four bracket feet with flat everted rim, cast in relief with thirty-eight children at play including dancing, playing musical instruments, wrestling, playing a board game, with a ball, riding a hobby horse, seated with a qin, two dressed as a Buddhist lion and picking flowers in landscape scenes on a stippled ground amongst wuti, pine and willow, pavilions, bridges, rockwork and lotus pond.
A Chinese Imperial cloisonné incense burner with rounded body on three short feet, with two loop handles at the rim, decorated on the body with lotus and prunus flower-heads, amongst scrolling foliage, all on a turquoise blue ground. 4 3/8 inches, 11.2cm at widest point, 4 7/16 inches, 11.3cm, total height. The base inset with a square gilt plaque and incised with a four character mark of Qianlong and of the period, together with a fifth character ru (place),
A Chinese Imperial cloisonné tripod censer of archaic lien form, the cylindrical body decorated with two bands of three taotieh masks between stylised chilong dragon heads, the top band with pink chilong dragon heads, the lower band with purple ground chilong dragon heads, all on a turquoise blue ground, between double ribs above ruyi-head feet, the underside with multicoloured ruyi-scrolls on a turquoise ground.
A pair of Chinese cloisonné square form pricket candlesticks made in five sections, decorated with stylised lotus flower-heads between interlocked fretwork, the tapered and baluster section similarly decorated with bats, the interior of the drip pans with prunus flower-heads on a cracked ice ground.
A Chinese bamboo carving of a standing smiling figure of Shoulao holding a tall root wood staff surmounted by a double gourd in his left hand and a lingzhi ru-yi branch in his right, wearing long flowing robes, tied with a ribbon at the front, with detailed beard and hairwork neatly tied in a covered bun at the back, a small attendant stands at his front holding a large peach.