AN EXQUISITE BEIJING ENAMEL MINIATURE TIERED BOX AND COVER QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795) Of rectangular section with canted corners, the box is delicately enamelled with stippled brushwork for fine shading, on the cover with shepherds and their grazing flock in an idyllic landscape and on the underside with a maiden and an elderly man in conversation, the first tier box painted with two crabs among flowers and leaves and on the reverse with a gourd growing amidst prunus, the bottom box embellished with carp swimming through water weeds, and the base enamelled with the reign mark inscribed on a large peach, all supported on tab feet, the yellow-ground sides decorated with floral scrolls (enamel losses overpainted) 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm.) high, box
AN EXQUISITE BEIJING ENAMEL MINIATURE TIERED BOX AND COVER QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795) Of rectangular section with canted corners, the box is delicately enamelled with stippled brushwork for fine shading, on the cover with shepherds and their grazing flock in an idyllic landscape and on the underside with a maiden and an elderly man in conversation, the first tier box painted with two crabs among flowers and leaves and on the reverse with a gourd growing amidst prunus, the bottom box embellished with carp swimming through water weeds, and the base enamelled with the reign mark inscribed on a large peach, all supported on tab feet, the yellow-ground sides decorated with floral scrolls (enamel losses overpainted) 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm.) high, box
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