A VERY RARE SMALL IMPERIAL CLOISONNE ENAMEL ‘QILIN AND LIONS’ VASE QIANLONG CAST FOUR-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795) The small baluster vase is brilliantly decorated on the exterior with a qilin above a treasure vase surrounded by eight lions playing with four be-ribboned brocade balls arranged in two rows amid colourful clouds between bands of petal lappets. The waisted neck is decorated with lotus scrolls flanked by a pair of gilt-bronze chilong-form handles and encircled by a gilt-bronze ring cast with lotus scrolls, below the galleried mouth chased with a double-line classic scroll on top. 4 ½ in. (11.2 cm.) high Provenance George Walter Vincent Smith (1832-1923), Springfield, Massachusetts, acquired prior to 1910
A VERY RARE SMALL IMPERIAL CLOISONNE ENAMEL ‘QILIN AND LIONS’ VASE QIANLONG CAST FOUR-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795) The small baluster vase is brilliantly decorated on the exterior with a qilin above a treasure vase surrounded by eight lions playing with four be-ribboned brocade balls arranged in two rows amid colourful clouds between bands of petal lappets. The waisted neck is decorated with lotus scrolls flanked by a pair of gilt-bronze chilong-form handles and encircled by a gilt-bronze ring cast with lotus scrolls, below the galleried mouth chased with a double-line classic scroll on top. 4 ½ in. (11.2 cm.) high Provenance George Walter Vincent Smith (1832-1923), Springfield, Massachusetts, acquired prior to 1910
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