Gilded bronze Pagoda roof inlaid with glass paste
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Directory: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Metalwork: Pre 1700: Item # 1445491
Directory: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Metalwork: Pre 1700: Item # 1445491
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An absolutely exceptional and unique object, a pagoda roof in cast bronze, very heavy, gilded and inlaid with glass paste.
If there are some rare examples of Chinese gilded bronzes inlaid with hard stones and some even rarer inlaid with transparent glass, to my knowledge we do not know of any other inlaid with glass paste. Here the glass imitates perfectly the white jade, the lapis lazuli, the ruby, the green jadeite emerald. The use of glass paste in 18th century China is not a depreciative element, on the contrary, at that time it was easier and less expensive to cut stones. The gilding is with hot mercury. It is very thick of excellent quality, certainly many layers.The interior laquered in red gilded with gold powder. It is certainly an imperial order and the base is probably marked on the front, Kien-Long.
The goal is to try to reunite the three elements that history has dispersed. Either by selling the roof or by buying the base and the column.
Height: 12cm Diameter 14,5cm
