A large Chinese cinnabar lacquer ‘pheasant and peony’ jardin...

Hammer

£6,000

A large Chinese cinnabar lacquer ‘pheasant and peony’ jardiniere, 19th century, elaborately carved in relief with pheasants amid peonies on a bronze or brass body, 34cm diameter, 27cm high, losses and numerous loose sections

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Provenance - UK private collection, 1920s or earlier, thence by family descent.
This collection of late Ming and Qing dynasty porcelain and bronze vessels has been owned by a single Cotswold family for a number of generations dating back to the 1920s or earlier.
The collection was formerly on display at the family home in Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, UK before the house was sold in the 1980s. Some interior photos taken c.1982 show a number of the pieces on display in the family house and an inventory undertaken in 1948 by the local Campden auctioneer and valuer Alfred Bower lists many of the items. Extracts of the 1948 inventory are included where they correspond to the relevant lots in the sale.

There are losses to the carved lacquer on the exterior and a number of the sections are loose slightly loose when pressed, some cracks to sections with evidence of pieces having been re-glued back in position, otherwise in reasonable condition.