A RARE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE 'MELON' BOX AND COVER18th century Finely modelled as a lobed melon and applied in high relief with gilt bronze tendrils issuing leaves, all on a diaper pattern ground interspersed with floral designs and repeated at the box. 13.4cm (5 1/4) long. (2). 十八世紀 銅胎掐絲琺琅瓜形蓋盒 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. pare with a fan-shaped cloisonné enamel covered box, mid Qing dynasty, decorated with a very similar patterned ground, at the Qing Court Collection and illustrated in the pendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Enamels 3, Cloisonné in the Qing Dynasty , Beijing, 2011, pp.313, no.272