AN IMPORTANT AND VERY RARE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE CIRCULAR 'CHUN' BOX AND COVERQianlong Ofpressed globular form resting on a wide foot, exquisitely decorated in bright enamels on a turquoise ground, the cover with a central medallion enclosing a large Chun character centred by a medallion enclosing Shoulao and his deer below a pine tree, flanked by a pair of writhing five-clawed dragons amidst cloud scrolls and above a large quatrefoil bowl issuing rainbow coloured rays centred by the flaming pearl, Endless Knot and other Auspicious Emblems, encircled by a classic scroll border, the sides of the box and cover with eight lobed cartouches each vividly depicting different scenes with a scholar and boy engaged in various leisurely pursuits in landscape scenes filled with rockwork and lush vegetation including willow, bamboo, pine and paulownia, divided by the Babao , all reserved against floral honeb blue and turquoise diaper ground, with a further zigzag band and a border of continuous foliate lingzhi fungus scroll, the heads of Shoulao and the figures delicately modelled in relief as gilt-bronze appliqués, the base decorated with prunus blossoms on a 'cracked-ice' ground. 21.5cm (8 1/2in) diam. (2). 清乾隆 鎏金銅胎掐絲琺瑯「春壽」寶盒 Provenance : Sir Michael Oppenheimer (3rd Baronet, 1924-2020) and Lady Helen Oppenheimer DD (1926-2022), and thence by descent 來源 ：Michael Oppenheimer 爵士（三代從男爵，1924-2020年）與Helen Oppenheimer爵士夫人（1926-2022年）舊藏，並由後人保存迄今 The collection belonged to Sir Michael and Lady Oppenheimer DD (3rd Baronet, 1924-2020). Sir Michael's maternal grandparents were Sir Robert Grenville Harvey, 2nd Baronet (1856-1931) and Lady Emily Blanche Harvey (1872-1935) of Langley Park, Buckinghamshire. The Chinese art collection can be, at least in part, traced back to Langley Park, Buckinghamshire, home to the Harvey Baronets from 1788 until 1945, as demonstrated in a pre-1945 photograph showing Lot 122, the cloisonné enamel tripod 'elephant' incense burner, Qianlong. Sir Michael Oppenheimer's paternal family was the well-known South African mining family. The baronetcy was created in 1921 for Bernard Oppenheimer, Chairman of the South African Diamond Corporation for setting up diamond sorting factories to employ wounded ex-servicemen after the First World War. The family has been involved with De Beers over many decades. Lady Oppenheimer DD (1926-2022) was a distinguished moral and philosophical theologian, with a particular interest in the ethics pertaining to personal relations. This remarkable box and cover was previously part of a set likely numbering eight or nine boxes, of which to-date only five similar cloisonné enamel and gilt-bronze 'Chun' boxes and covers with relief gilt-bronze 'face' appliqués, Qianlong, appear to have been published. These include, in addition to the present lot, the two which were sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 9 October 2007, lot 1323; one from the T.B. Kitson col