Lot 376
CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL 'ARCHAISTIC' BALUSTER VASE
TIANLI MARK, LATE QING DYNASTY TO REPUBLIC PERIOD, 19TH-20TH CENTURY
Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art
Auction: 3 November 2023 from 09:00 GMT
Description
清末民初 天利款 銅胎掐絲琺瑯仿古饕餮紋瓶
the body vividly decorated with a pink-ground band around the shoulder containing six archaistic taotie masks, the body and the neck further with six cicada lappets with stylised taotie heads against light- and dark-blue ground, the base cast with a two-character 'Tian Li' mark
Dimensions
31.5cm high; 1580g
Provenance
Provenance: Private Scottish collection, Paxton House. From the collection of H.W. Robertson, Taipan for Butterfield & Swire in Shanghai then Hong Kong 1906-1912, whose son married the heiress to Paxton House in Berwickshire; thence by descent.
Paxton House is situated on the banks of the River Tweed, near Berwick-upon-Tweed. Designed by John and James Adam in 1758, it is perhaps the finest example of an eighteenth-century Palladian country house in Britain and contains a pre-eminent collection of Chippendale furniture. In 1811, the Edinburgh architect Robert Reid added the largest purpose-built picture gallery in a Scottish country house.