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A MAGNIFICENT AND MASSIVE IMPERIAL
CLOISONNE ENAMEL ‘TAOTIE’ HU-FORM VASE

YONGZHENG-QIANLONG PERIOD (1723-1795)

The pear-shaped vase is superbly cast on both sides of the body with
a powerful taotie mask in relief featuring scroll-shaped eyebrows, eyes
detailed with concentric circles, and gilt-bronze teeth in relief against a
diaper ground of wan emblems and florettes enclosed within octagonal
panels, below a raised gilt-bronze band cast with pairs of confronted
dragons, and the neck decorated with a band of plantain-shaped
panels each enclosing a pair of confronted phoenix, flanked by a pair of
loop handles decorated with taotie masks. The waisted foot is further
decorated with four ferocious mythical-beast masks interspersed by
four mythical beasts shown in profile.
25 ⅜ in. (64.7 cm.) high

HK$3,000,000-5,000,000
US$390,000-650,000

PROVENANCE:
George Walter Vincent Smith (1832-1923), Springfield, Massachusetts,
acquired prior to 1910

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