A RARE GILT-BRONZE SUNDIAL QIANLONG MARK AND PERIOD, DATED GENGZI YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 1780 | 清乾隆庚子年（1780） 鎏金銅日晷 《大清乾隆庚子年製》款

A RARE GILT-BRONZE SUNDIAL
QIANLONG MARK AND PERIOD, DATED GENGZI YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 1780
清乾隆庚子年（1780）鎏金銅日晷 《大清乾隆庚子年製》款

of semi-hemispherical form with deep rounded sides rising to an everted rim, inscribed to each side of the rim with Chinese solar terms, incised to the interior with a diagonal table matrix and set with a gnomon, all supported on three long feet formed by whisps of ruyi-shaped clouds extending under the rim and terminating in dragon heads, the side with an incised eight-character inscription reading Daqing Qianlong gengzi nianzhi ('Made in the Gengzi year during the Qianlong period of the Great Qing dynasty')
Diameter 27.5 cm, 10⅞ in.

Condition Report:
The dial has light rubbing to the gilded decoration in particular to the edge and top of the rim and to the extremities of the ruyi-cloud supports, and discolouration to the gilding on the interior, beneath and just below the rim.

中文內容僅供參考，請以英文原版為準。整體鎏金有輕微磨損，於各邊角及口沿尤爲明顯。幾處鎏金另有變色，包括内壁、底部及口沿以下區域。

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