Height 25.8 cm, 10⅛ in.
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说明:Beautifully enamelled vases, incense burners and other vessels decorated in the champlevé technique were manufactured in Guangzhou during the Qianlong period, as discussed in Tributes from Guangdong to the Qing Court, Art Gallery, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1987, p. 54, where the authors explain how the 'flourishment of champlevé enamels in Guangzhou was closely linked to the needs of the imperial household and was stimulated by the new foreign champlevé techniques'.
A pair of identical champlevé enamel beaker vases, part of a garniture of five, was sold at the American Art Galleries, The Remarkable Collection of the Imperial Prince Kung of China, New York, 27th February - 1st March 1913, lot 358.
Lothar Maximilian Lorenz Schmid (1928–2013) was a celebrated German chess grandmaster, who represented West Germany at eleven chess Olympiads and was chief-arbiter of the famous Bobby Fischer - Boris Spassky match of 1972. His extensive collection of chess-interest books was sold in these rooms 2nd to 17th April 2026, lots 1 to 86.