AN IMPERIAL INSCRIBED CLOISONNE ENAMEL ‘PRUNUS’ WALL VASE QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) The baluster vase is decorated with a shaped cartouche on the body enclosing an inscription excerpted from a Qianlong imperial poem praising the prunus, followed by a four-character seal reading chen Yu Minzhong, ‘[presented by your] vassal, Yu Minzhog’, reserved on a white ground embellished with red scrolling lotus and upright plantain leaves on the neck, supported by gilt-bronze openwork handles in the form of prunus blossoms, all affixed on a separately cast gilt-bronze rock-form base. 10 1⁄2 in. (26.5 cm.) high
AN IMPERIAL INSCRIBED CLOISONNE ENAMEL ‘PRUNUS’ WALL VASE QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) The baluster vase is decorated with a shaped cartouche on the body enclosing an inscription excerpted from a Qianlong imperial poem praising the prunus, followed by a four-character seal reading chen Yu Minzhong, ‘[presented by your] vassal, Yu Minzhog’, reserved on a white ground embellished with red scrolling lotus and upright plantain leaves on the neck, supported by gilt-bronze openwork handles in the form of prunus blossoms, all affixed on a separately cast gilt-bronze rock-form base. 10 1⁄2 in. (26.5 cm.) high
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