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The vessel is decorated with lotus blooms and leafy tendrils, below a band of ruyi-heads below the mouth rim. One side of the body is applied with a gilt dragon-head handle. The base has a trigram emblem within a circle forming the symbol qian.
5 in. (12.7 cm.) high
£8,000-12,000
PROVENANCE
A private English collection.
Compare the current lot with a very similarly formed and decorated cloisonné enamel jue sold in Christie’s Hong Kong,
28 November 2005, lot 1496.
The jue appears to have been essential to Shang dynasty (circa 1600-1100 BC) rituals, as they are one of the most numerous vessels found in Shang royal and aristocratic tombs. It is likely that they were used for heating alcohol over a fre; with the post-like handles functioning as supports for lifting the vessel.
清乾隆 掐絲琺瑯纏枝番蓮紋爵盃