AN EXCEPTIONAL AND EXTREMELY RARE PAIR OF IMPERIAL CLOISONNE ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE FIGURES OF TAPIRS MARKS AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG each outstandingly cast in the form of a tapir dynamically standing foursquare on its gilt-bronze hooves, the beast rendered with muscular contours and a tapering tail tucked between its haunches, the head brilliantly rendered with alert eyes below a pair of upright ears, each defined with a concave centre, the rounded and prominent snout depicted agape and revealing its teeth, the neck collared with a gilt-bronze band finely adorned with a classical scroll, the back of the hollow figure with a teardrop-shaped hinged aperture framing a four-character reign mark within a square, all superbly decorated with a glistening speckled bluish-green enamel against fine wires delicately forming flame scroll motifs all over the muscular body of the beast 29 and 29.5 cm, 11 3/8 and 11 5/8 in.
AN EXCEPTIONAL AND EXTREMELY RARE PAIR OF IMPERIAL CLOISONNE ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE FIGURES OF TAPIRS MARKS AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG each outstandingly cast in the form of a tapir dynamically standing foursquare on its gilt-bronze hooves, the beast rendered with muscular contours and a tapering tail tucked between its haunches, the head brilliantly rendered with alert eyes below a pair of upright ears, each defined with a concave centre, the rounded and prominent snout depicted agape and revealing its teeth, the neck collared with a gilt-bronze band finely adorned with a classical scroll, the back of the hollow figure with a teardrop-shaped hinged aperture framing a four-character reign mark within a square, all superbly decorated with a glistening speckled bluish-green enamel against fine wires delicately forming flame scroll motifs all over the muscular body of the beast 29 and 29.5 cm, 11 3/8 and 11 5/8 in.
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