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○ 30 A EXCEPTIONALLY LARGE 清十七 / 十八世紀 銅胎掐絲琺
CLOISONNE ENAMEL BEAKER
瑯仿古饕餮紋出戟大方尊
VASE, FANGZUN
來源
QING DYNASTY, 17TH / 18TH CENTURY Robert Hoe III (1839-1909) 收藏
of square section modeled after archaic zun vessels, each side 美國藝術聯盟，紐約，1911年2月18日，編號
of the central bulb enameled with a stylized taotie mask amidst 888
scrolling lotus blooms, the tall trumpet neck decorated with Samuel P. Avery, Jr. (1847-1920) 收藏
archaistic lappets enclosing interlocking scrolls and further 1911年贈予布魯克林博物館，布魯克林 (館藏編
lotus, the splayed foot similarly enameled, with notched vertical 號09.933.3)
flanges dividing each side and at each corner, the interior of
the mouth decorated with further lotus scroll, all reserved on a 展覽
turquoise ground, the rims gilt 《Blue of Jingtai. The Samuel P. Avery, Jr.
Collection of Chinese Cloisonné Enamels》，布魯
Height 24 in., 60.2 cm
克林博物館，布魯克林，1990至1993年
PROVENANCE 出版
Collection of Robert Hoe III (1839-1909). 〈Brooklyn Gets World’s Best Set of Cloisonnés〉，
American Art Association, New York, 18th February 1911, lot 888. 《布魯克林每日鷹報》，1911年4月2日
Collection of Samuel P. Avery, Jr. (1847-1920). John Getz，《Catalogue of the Avery Collection of
Gifted to the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, in 1911 (acc. no. Ancient Chinese Cloisonnés》，紐約，1912年，
09.933.3). 圖版38
EXHIBITED
Blue of Jingtai. The Samuel P. Avery, Jr. Collection of Chinese
Cloisonné Enamels, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, 1990-93.
LITERATURE
‘Brooklyn Gets World’s Best Set of Cloisonnés’, The Brooklyn
Daily Eagle, 2nd April 1911.
John Getz, Catalogue of the Avery Collection of Ancient Chinese
Cloisonnés, New York, 1912, pl. 38.
The present vase, with its majestic construction and elaborate
enameling, celebrates the 18th century interest in antiquity. The
squared beaker form adorned with crisply cast flanges is based
on a ritual bronze vessel of the Zhou dynasty, specifically a zun
of square section. The design juxtaposes motifs taken from or
inspired by the Zhou dynasty prototypes, such as the taotie
masks to the central register and blades to the foot, with those
found in contemporary porcelains, lacquers and textiles. Parts
of the vessel which did not exist, or which would have been left
blank in the Zhou dynasty original, have been filled with lotus
blooms, demonstrating the craftsmen’s freedom to improvise.
Only a small number of zun-form vessels of this extremely large
size are known. Compare one of the same size and similar design
in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Gugong bowuyuan
cangpin daxi: falangqi bian [Compendium of Collections in the
Palace Museum: Cloisonné] vol. 2, Beijing, 2011, pl. 36.
Slightly smaller cloisonné enamel zun measuring approximately
55 cm high include a Qianlong mark and period example in
the National Palace Museum, illustrated in Enamel Ware in the
Ming and Ch’ing Dynasties, Taipei, 1999, pl. 49; one illustrated
in Helmut Brinker and Albert Lutz, Chinese Cloisonné: The
Uldry Collection, New York, 1989, pl. 212; and another with an
apocryphal cast Jingtai mark was sold at Christie’s New York,
25th March 1998, lot 89.
$ 100,000-150,000

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