A RARE IMPERIAL ENAMELLED GOLD-BODIED CUPSTAND QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG / JIAQING PERIOD the shallow rounded sides rising from a hollow base to a broad everted rim, cast in the centre with a raised stand to support a cup and finely enamelled on the gold body, the central recessed ring with an open bloom on a turquoise ground, encircled by petal lappets on the exterior walls, the well with a turquoise band enclosing a garland of alternating pink and blue petalled florets, the rim decorated with four turquoise-ground lobed lotus panels, all against a deep purplish-blue ground dressed with densely foliate lotus scrolls, the underside similarly enamelled with peony scrolls against a dark purplish-blue ground, save for the hollow base applied with a thick white enamel and pierced with five small apertures, the rims left in plain solid gold 20.5 cm., 8 1/8 in. The gold tested as 18K.
A RARE IMPERIAL ENAMELLED GOLD-BODIED CUPSTAND QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG / JIAQING PERIOD the shallow rounded sides rising from a hollow base to a broad everted rim, cast in the centre with a raised stand to support a cup and finely enamelled on the gold body, the central recessed ring with an open bloom on a turquoise ground, encircled by petal lappets on the exterior walls, the well with a turquoise band enclosing a garland of alternating pink and blue petalled florets, the rim decorated with four turquoise-ground lobed lotus panels, all against a deep purplish-blue ground dressed with densely foliate lotus scrolls, the underside similarly enamelled with peony scrolls against a dark purplish-blue ground, save for the hollow base applied with a thick white enamel and pierced with five small apertures, the rims left in plain solid gold 20.5 cm., 8 1/8 in. The gold tested as 18K.
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