A CHINESE FAMILLE-ROSE TROMPE L'OEIL 'FIRECRACKER' BOX AND COVER

Qing Dynasty, Qianlong mark and of the period

清乾隆 粉彩爆竹形蓋盒

《乾隆年製》款

The box and cover realistically-modelled to form a bundle of firecrackers, decorated with swirls on light-blue, pink, turquoise and yellow grounds, leafy sprigs bearing fruit on a lime-green ground, prunus flowerheads and cracked-ice on a coral ground, and flowerheads on a black ground, with moulded fuses 'taped' down with gilt-painted strips, all bound with coral-coloured ribbon decorated with gilt foliate sprays, the interior and base glazed turquoise, the latter centered with a white cartouche bearing a four-character Qianlong mark in iron-red, together with a fitted wood stand,

10cm long, 8.8cm high

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PROVENANCE:

European Private Collection of a Gentleman

來源：

歐洲紳士私人收藏

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c.f. A pair of comparable boxes and covers, also dated to the Qianlong period and bearing character marks, and being from the collection of Brooke Astor, were sold at Sotheby's New York, 24th - 25th September 2012, lot 367. A 19th/20th century example was offered at the same rooms, 18th March 2017, lot 1469.

Note: Examples of firecrackers upon which the boxes are based upon are illustrated in a court painting by Giuseppe Castiglione (Lang Shining) and preserved in the Palace Museum, Beijing, entitled Emperor Qianlong enjoying himself in Snowy Weather, illustrated in Life in the Forbidden City of the Qing Dynasty, Beijing, 2007, p. 262, pl. 430.

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