A RARE CHINESE PAINTED ENAMEL SQUARE WINE WARMER AND COVER YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-1735) The sloping body supported on a slightly splayed foot and the flat cover with a central aperture, applied with gilt-bronze swing handles to the top and sides, all finely and delicately decorated with cartouches of figures at leisurely pursuits on the sides, and bats, flowers and foliage reserved on cell-pattern grounds on the top of the cover, the interior decorated with fish and water plants, below bats amongst clouds around the bronze, somewhat ovoid chimney rising from a pierced base 9 5/8 in. (24.4 cm.) square Provenance John Sparks, London, where acquired, 20 June 1978.
A RARE CHINESE PAINTED ENAMEL SQUARE WINE WARMER AND COVER YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-1735) The sloping body supported on a slightly splayed foot and the flat cover with a central aperture, applied with gilt-bronze swing handles to the top and sides, all finely and delicately decorated with cartouches of figures at leisurely pursuits on the sides, and bats, flowers and foliage reserved on cell-pattern grounds on the top of the cover, the interior decorated with fish and water plants, below bats amongst clouds around the bronze, somewhat ovoid chimney rising from a pierced base 9 5/8 in. (24.4 cm.) square Provenance John Sparks, London, where acquired, 20 June 1978.
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