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A rare cloisonné enamel ‘prunus and bamboo’ bottle vase
Incised Jingtai four-character mark, 16th/17th century A rare cloisonné enamel archaistic tripod bowl, ding
The pear-shaped bottle enamelled with twisting branches of prunus issuing 17th century
white and red blossoms, intertwined with aubergine bamboo shafts issuing Decorated with a gilt band containing three pairs of confronted chilong on a
dark green bamboo leaves beside Lake Tai rockwork above the stepped foot, leiwen ground between flanges, the underside with three lotus blossoms on
the slender neck enamelled with cascades of small white beads set with larger foliate scrolls, all raised on three legs formed with mythical beast heads, the
red, yellow and blue pearls and flanked by handles of crouching gilt chilong narrow rim also enamelled with floral meander and supporting two upright
with long curling tails. 24.8cm (9¾in) high handles. 17cm (6¾in) high
£5,000 - 7,000 £25,000 - 30,000
HK$59,000 - 82,000 CNY47,000 - 66,000 HK$290,000 - 350,000 CNY240,000 - 280,000
十六/十七世紀 掐絲琺瑯梅花紋雙螭龍耳瓶 陰刻「景泰年製」楷書款
Provenance: an English private collection 十七世紀 掐絲琺瑯螭龍紋衝耳三足爐
來源：英國私人收藏
Compare a cloisonné enamel vase, Xuande mark, late Ming Dynasty, from Provenance: an English private collection
the Palace Museum, similarly decorated around the body with prunus and
bamboo, illustrated by Zheng Xinmiao, ed., Compendium of Collections in the 來源：英國私人收藏
Palace Museum: Enamels 1 - Cloisonné in the Yuan (1271-1368) and Ming
(1368-1644) Dynasties, Beijing, 2011, pl.118. The form of this vessel dates back to the archaic Shang Dynasty; see a tripod
bowl illustrated by R.W.Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M.Sackler
Collections, Vol.1, Harvard, 1987, no.81. Compare also a related tripod bowl
of similar form but enamelled with a taotie mask, dated to the early Qing
Dynasty, illustrated by Zheng Xinmiao, ed., Compendium of Collections in
the Palace Museum: Enamel 2 - Cloisonné in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911),
Beijing, 2011, pl.55.
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