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A CLOISONNE ENAMEL GU-FORM VASE
LATE MING DYNASTY, 16TH-17TH CENTURY
Modelled after an archaic bronze gu-form, the vase is decorated
with four tall blade-shaped panels on the trumpet neck, each filled
with lotus, chrysanthemum, white mallow and camellia sprays
on a blue ground, reserved on a turquoise ground decorated with
grape vines. The mid-section is further decorated with flowering
branches and grape vines divided by four flanges repeated on
the similarly decorated pedestal base. The base is incised with an
apocryphal Jingtai four-character mark.
12 …/”ÿ in. (30.9 cm.) high, box
HK$800,000-1,500,000 US$110,000-190,000
Compare the present vase to a slightly smaller one (28.8 cm.), dated to
the Xuande period and with closely related decoration, in the collection
of the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection
of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Metal-Bodied Enamel Ware,
Hong Kong, 2002, p. 26, no. 24 (fig. 1). Another very similar vase was
included in the exhibition at the Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt
an Main, Die Ware aus dem Teufelsland, 1981, and illustrated in the
Catalogue, no. 7.
Compare also the related cloisonné enamel gu-form vase of broader
proportions and with a cast Jingtai mark on the base, illustrated
in Masterpieces of Chinese Enamel Ware in the National Palace
Museum, Taipei, 1971, no. 6.

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