A RARE PAINTED ENAMEL CIRCULAR SWEETMEAT BOX AND COVER

18TH CENTURY

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A RARE PAINTED ENAMEL CIRCULAR SWEETMEAT BOX AND COVER
18th century
The cushion-form cover finely painted with a large flowerhead with six ruyi-head petals encircled by a band of six bats and with a band of conjoined flower sprays and wan fret just above the rim, a similar band repeated on the box between a band of pendent leaves above and petal lappets below, all in a famille rose palette reserved on a gilt leiwen and royal blue ground, above a spreading foot encircled by a band of gilt foliate scroll; the interior enameled in pale milky turquoise and fitted with a shallow tray holding eight shallow fan-shaped sweetmeat dishes surrounding a circular dish, each painted in red, blue and gilt with a central shou character within a border of bats below foliate sprays in the well
13½in. (34.3cm.) diam., box

拍品专文

Another painted enamel box of this type dated to the Qianlong period, also fitted with sweetmeat dishes, but of lobed square shape, was included in the exhibition, Tributes from Guangdong to the Qing Court, Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1987, p. 87, pl. 49, and on p. 132 is described as being representative of painted enamels produced in Guangzhou.