AN EXQUISITE BEIJING ENAMEL 'EUROPEAN SUBJECT' TRIPOD WASHER BLUE ENAMEL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG the ovoid copper body resting on three small spherical feet and rising to an inverted lipped rim, with a finely enamelled central register set between gilt-bronze lotus borders, exquisitely decorated in stippled colours with two horizontal quarterfoil panels within strapwork borders, each containing an European landscape with a castle in the distance and trees in the forefront, in the first a young man presents his beloved fiancée with a flower spray, in the other the woman dressed in a ruby-red robe hands a fruit to her child, the two panels alternating with pale blue archaistic medallions formed from intertwined phoenix and dragon, all reserved on a rich yellow ground picked out with red scrolls, set between cast foliate scroll bands around the mouth and foot, the interior turquoise, the rims gilt, the white base inscribed with a four-character reign mark in dark blue enamel within double squares 5.5 cm., 2 1/8 in.
AN EXQUISITE BEIJING ENAMEL 'EUROPEAN SUBJECT' TRIPOD WASHER BLUE ENAMEL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG the ovoid copper body resting on three small spherical feet and rising to an inverted lipped rim, with a finely enamelled central register set between gilt-bronze lotus borders, exquisitely decorated in stippled colours with two horizontal quarterfoil panels within strapwork borders, each containing an European landscape with a castle in the distance and trees in the forefront, in the first a young man presents his beloved fiancée with a flower spray, in the other the woman dressed in a ruby-red robe hands a fruit to her child, the two panels alternating with pale blue archaistic medallions formed from intertwined phoenix and dragon, all reserved on a rich yellow ground picked out with red scrolls, set between cast foliate scroll bands around the mouth and foot, the interior turquoise, the rims gilt, the white base inscribed with a four-character reign mark in dark blue enamel within double squares 5.5 cm., 2 1/8 in.
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