TWO CLOISONNE CIRCULAR COVERED BOXES QING DYNASTY, JIAQING P...

Estimate

£300 - £500

TWO CLOISONNE CIRCULAR COVERED BOXES
QING DYNASTY, JIAQING PERIOD
掐丝珐琅盖盒 清 嘉庆
the covers each with a large medallion of rockwork issuing budding stems, reserved on a turquoise ground of leiwen, one with sylised roundels, the other with bats & roundels, each with a border of ruyi heads 
13cm diam

PROVENANCE: From a Private Wiltshire Collection.

NOTE: For similar box sold at auction see; Sotheby's Paris, Arts d'Asie, 9th Dec 2021, lot 138.

More Information

The box with the blue 'ruyi' border has two interior star cracks to the lid and a smal area of loss. The other with two impact dents to the base with resulting enamel loss.