A RARE IMPERIAL SILVER-FILIGREE MALLOW-SHAPED 'PHOENIX AND LOTUS' BOX AND COVER QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY exquisitely modelled in the form of a mallow bloom with sides divided into eight bracket foliations and decorated in openwork filigree designs, the top of the cover with a sloping border rendered as eight petals, each with a cartouche enclosing floral sprigs, rising up to a flat mallow-form panel with a thin border decorated with ruyi-shaped cartouches enclosing the anbaxian emblems, all encircling a medallion with a pair of phoenix soaring with long billowing tails and flanking lotus scrolls, the straight sides with a frieze of eight upright ruyi blooms, the box of corresponding form with a frieze of eight pendent ruyi blooms, above a sloping border decorated with further ruyi blooms above a straight footrim with a galleried footring, the footim detailed with two rows of dense scrollwork, the base centred with a large floral blossom, the details all densely adorned with intricate undulating scrollwork 14.7 cm, 5 3/4 in.
A RARE IMPERIAL SILVER-FILIGREE MALLOW-SHAPED 'PHOENIX AND LOTUS' BOX AND COVER QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY exquisitely modelled in the form of a mallow bloom with sides divided into eight bracket foliations and decorated in openwork filigree designs, the top of the cover with a sloping border rendered as eight petals, each with a cartouche enclosing floral sprigs, rising up to a flat mallow-form panel with a thin border decorated with ruyi-shaped cartouches enclosing the anbaxian emblems, all encircling a medallion with a pair of phoenix soaring with long billowing tails and flanking lotus scrolls, the straight sides with a frieze of eight upright ruyi blooms, the box of corresponding form with a frieze of eight pendent ruyi blooms, above a sloping border decorated with further ruyi blooms above a straight footrim with a galleried footring, the footim detailed with two rows of dense scrollwork, the base centred with a large floral blossom, the details all densely adorned with intricate undulating scrollwork 14.7 cm, 5 3/4 in.
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