AN UNUSUAL PAIR OF GILT BRONZE SQUARE LANTERNS

拍品 1918

1918

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AN UNUSUAL PAIR OF GILT BRONZE SQUARE LANTERNS

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AN UNUSUAL PAIR OF GILT BRONZE SQUARE LANTERNS
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

Each finely carved and chased with four pierced lotus panels set within the domed roof beneath a jade lotus flower finial and with pairs of stylised dragon-head terminals suspending bells at each corner, above the sides each set with a reticulated white jade plaque carved with a shou character below a bat in flight, set against a diaper ground between further lotus scrolls within ruyi panels and lotus scrolls on the bevelled sides, all supported by elaborate pairs of bracket feet, mounted for electricity by E.F. Caldwell & Co. Inc., New York, cica 1930
11 3/8in. (29cm.) high (2)

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Lighting in the Forbidden City was predominantly comprised of portable lanterns which had to be sufficiently protected from draughts and winds so they could also be used outside.

A number of gilt-bronze lanterns remain in situ in the Palace Museum, Beijing, although none of this unusual form appear to be published and most of the remaining examples in the Palace Museum appear to be larger laterns such as the zitan examples illustrated by Hu Desheng, A Treasury of Ming and Qing Dynasty Palace Furniture, Vol. 1, Beijing 2007, no. 412 and 413.

Compare also to two pairs of cloisonné enamel lanterns sold at Christie's Hong Kong, the first 27 November 2007, lot 1830; the other 29 April 2002, lot 582.