A RARE CHINESE IMPERIAL CLOISONNE ENAMEL SILVER-GILT BOWL

A RARE CHINESE IMPERIAL CLOISONNE ENAMEL SILVER-GILT BOWL
QIANLONG/JIAQING

Incised in low relief with the characters wan shou wu jiang (long life without ending), each character in a roundel with traces of turquoise blue enamels, divided by cloud scrolls, all between two green-enamelled borders of archaistic patterns around the rim and lappets above the spreading foot, 316g, 9.8cm.

Cf. Bonhams London, 17th May 2012, lot 136, for an almost identical pair of cloisonné enamel and bronze bowls bearing paper labels inscribed ‘Taken from Summer Palace Pekin 1860’.

清乾隆/嘉慶 御製鏨銀燒藍萬壽無疆碗