A FINELY PAINTED AND RARE BEIJING ENAMEL 'SCHOLARS' HANDLED CUP BLUE ENAMEL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG the well-wrought copper body with deep rounded sides rising from a short waisted foot to a flared rim, set with two gilt archaistic dragon-fish handles, the exterior exquisitely decorated in stippled enamels with two rectangular landscape panels within strapwork borders, each depicting in an European style a gathering of scholars near a lake with mountains and trees in the distance, in one scene three sages are conversing next to a pavilion, another stands holding a gnarled staff while their companion is leaning against a tree trunk, gazing at the sunrise in the distance, in the second a scholar followed by a child attendant carrying a wrapped qin addresses three others standing in front of rocks and houses, all reserved on a bright yellow ground picked out with dense crimson-red foliate scrolls, between a pale blue border at the rim and a pale blue 'classic' scroll around the foot, the interior turquoise, the rims gilt, the white base inscribed in blue enamel with a four-character reign mark within double squares 9.8 cm., 3 7/8 in.
A FINELY PAINTED AND RARE BEIJING ENAMEL 'SCHOLARS' HANDLED CUP BLUE ENAMEL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG the well-wrought copper body with deep rounded sides rising from a short waisted foot to a flared rim, set with two gilt archaistic dragon-fish handles, the exterior exquisitely decorated in stippled enamels with two rectangular landscape panels within strapwork borders, each depicting in an European style a gathering of scholars near a lake with mountains and trees in the distance, in one scene three sages are conversing next to a pavilion, another stands holding a gnarled staff while their companion is leaning against a tree trunk, gazing at the sunrise in the distance, in the second a scholar followed by a child attendant carrying a wrapped qin addresses three others standing in front of rocks and houses, all reserved on a bright yellow ground picked out with dense crimson-red foliate scrolls, between a pale blue border at the rim and a pale blue 'classic' scroll around the foot, the interior turquoise, the rims gilt, the white base inscribed in blue enamel with a four-character reign mark within double squares 9.8 cm., 3 7/8 in.
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