A SMALL CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE BALUSTER VASE Incised Qianlong seven-character mark and of the period The body set with three gilt-bronze lion masks and loose-ring handles, finely decorated with polychrome lotus blooms and scrolling foliage, the rounded stepped shoulder and neck with stylised blossom and scrolling stems, the base incised with the Qianlong six-character mark and additional character 'feng'. 12.2cm (4 3/4in) high. Footnotes: Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 清乾隆 掐絲琺瑯纏枝蓮紋鋪首耳瓶 「大清乾隆年製」「鳳」楷書刻款 Provenance: a European private collection Bonhams London, 8 November 2012, lot 245 來源：歐洲私人舊藏 倫敦邦瀚斯，2012年11月8日，拍品編號245 The shape of the present lot is extremely rare. A related cloisonné enamel bottle vase, Qianlong five-character mark, in the Robert H.Clague Collection, Phoenix Art Museum, is illustrated by B.Quette, ed., Cloisonné: Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, New York, 2011, pl.130. See a cloisonné enamel vase, incised Qianlong six-character mark and of the period, which was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 28 May 2014, lot 3541. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com