£1,188
Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art | 658
Auction: 5 November 2021 at 10:00 GMT
江戶至明治 銅胎掐絲琺瑯趕珠龍紋大瓶
the globular body supported on a tall spreading foot and terminating to an everted rim, the decorative motifs divided into horizontal registers, the main decorative band with two pairs of four-clawed dragons, below a band of Buddhist lions, all between two bands of lotus flowers on the foot and the neck, a further decoration of plantain leaves below the mouth rim
Provenance: Private English collection, acquired by Henry Lardner Dennys (1852 -1926) thence by descent.
Henry Lardner Dennys arrived in Hong Kong in 1868 to serve his articles as a solicitor, and rose to become Crown Solicitor in 1896 and helped negotiate the Treaty for the New Territories for the colony of Hong Kong, and saved Dr Sun Yat Sen – the father of modern China - from capture at the hands of the Imperial police in 1895. The photo, illustrated in the article 'My Great-Grandfather: The Man Who Saved Dr Sun Yat Sen' in The Hong Kong Tatler, published in June 1987, p. 83, includes this cloisonne enamel vase displaying on the right corner of the Drawing Room, 'Brockhurst' house, one of the first residences on the Mount Gough, east of Victoria Peak, Hong Kong.