Dimensions (ring): outer: 33.18mm inner: 23.90mm Weight: 35.6g Box: 56.73mm H x 59.73mm W Stand: 24.28mm H

Stunning, Chinese Qing Dynasty dragon porcelain ring in gilt bronze cloisonne box. Cylindrical carved Chinese porcelain archers ring. The exterior decorated with snarling huge imperial five claws dragon careening through cumulus clouds above thrashing Li-Shui waves in a famille rose design color dragon squama rounded the ring to chasing flaming pearl amidst flames, all reserved in lemon yellow underglaze base color. Dragon is the symbol of the Emperor, the Son of Heaven, eternity, Yang and Yin, male vigor and fecundity, the Li-Shui wave pattern which is known to be the abode of dragons. Included the box in a gilt bronze cloisonne case of colorful interlocking auspicious pattern and scrolling tendrils against turquoise blue ground. Cloisonne is enameled metal on which the colors of the design are separated by thin metallic strings. The cells are filled with crushed enamel after which the object is heated until the enamels liquify into the cells. The whole piece is then sanded and polished into a uniform surface. The gilt cloisonne box archer ring rested on a pale-yellow metallic silk wrapped chard cushion round pedestal. Embossed Qianlong reign mark on base.
Mark on base, a four script characters reign mark, Qianlong Reign Period.


LOT NOTES:

The cloisonne technique was mostly used for jeweler and small fittings for clothes, weapons or similar small objects decorated with geometric or schematic designs, with thick cloisonne walls. 14th century this enamel technique had spread to China, where it was soon used for much larger vessels such as bowls and vases; the technique remains common in China to the present day, and cloisonne enamel objects using Chinese-derived styles were produced in the 17 the century. However, by the beginning of the 17 the century the Qianlong Emperor had a cloisonne workshop among the many Imperial factories. The most elaborate and highly valued Chinese pieces are from the early Ming Dynasty, especially the reigns of the Xuande Emperor and Jingtai Emperor (1450–57), although 19th century or modern pieces are far more common. The Chinese industry seems to have benefited from a number of skilled Byzantine refugees fleeing the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, although based on the name alone, it is far more likely China obtained knowledge of the technique from the middle east. In much Chinese cloisonne blue is usually the predominant color, and the Chinese name for the technique, jingtailan (Jingtai blue ware), refers to this, and the Jingtai Emperor. Chinese cloisonne is amongst the best known enamel cloisonne in the world.

Over all in EXCELLENT condition. Traced numerous tiny-holes of corrosions on enamel filling, No missing wires found on cloisonne works. With normal anomalies in nature, sign of stressed surface, minor scratch & dents. Surface traced wear and or declined to gilding. . Normal, consider ages and wear.
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