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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF LENORA AND WALTER F. BROWN
1599
A LARGE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL HU-FORM VASE AND
COVER
LATE MING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY
The vase is decorated on the bulbous body, neck and flaring foot with
rows of stylized lotus scroll, divided by narrow ribbed bands of florets
on a dark blue ground, beneath six applied gilt bosses on the neck. The
cover is further decorated with lotus scroll, and has three gilt-bronze
loop handles formed as stylized coiled chilong.
25 in. (63.5 cm.) high

$20,000-30,000
PROVENANCE:
Roger Keverne, London, 2012.
The Lenora and Walter F. Brown Collection, San Antonio, Texas.
EXHIBITED:
London, Roger Keverne, Fine and Rare Chinese Works of Art and
Ceramics - Winter Exhibition, 2012.
LITERATURE:
Roger Keverne, Fine and Rare Chinese Works of Art and Ceramics -
Winter Exhibition, London, 2012, p. 74, no. 53.

A cloisonné vase of similar form but smaller
size (15º in.) also with a cover set with three
upright rings, is in the Avery collection and
is illustrated by John Getz in Catalogue
of the Avery Collection of Ancient Chinese
Cloisonnés, Brooklyn, 1912, pp. 28-9, no. 48,
where it is dated to the Ming dynasty (1368-
1644). Another very similar cloisonné vase
and cover of comparable but slightly larger
(26.4 in.) size sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong,
8 October 2010, lot 2712.

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