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A RARE CLOISONNE ENAMEL GLOBULAR OVAL VESSEL,
WITH LATER FITTED JADE COVER
Late Ming dynasty, 16th-17th Century
The vessel of unusual shape with wide rounded sides and oval
profile, the central section with a band of scrolling lotus on a
turquoise-blue ground above lotus-leaf lappets above a waisted and
spreading foot with a wire-inlaid turquoise-blue ‘cloud’ ground above
a multi-color wide chevron band, the shoulder with a yellow and blue
ruyi lappets below a further wire-inlaid turquoise-blue ‘cloud’ ground
and another colorful chevron band at the rim, the later jade cover
surmounted by a coiling dragon.
4 3/8in (11.4cm) wide; 3 1/4in (8.5cm) high for the vessel
5 1/8in (13.4cm) high including cover

$10,000 - 15,000
晚明 十六/十七世紀 銅胎崁絲琺琅扁壺 後配玉蓋

For a two-handled Wanli-marked censer and cover of similar profile
to ours, see Bonhams, Hong Kong, ‘Imperial Splendour’ 3 December
2015, lot 55, where it is compared to other examples in the Qing
Court Collection illustrated in The Compendium of Collections in the
Palace Museum: Enamels 1, Beijing, 2011, pls. 100-101.

For a Ming bombe censer with a central band of decoration very
similar to that found on our vessel, and attributed to early Ming see
Yang Boda (ed.) The Complete Collection of Chinese Gold and Silver,
Glass enamelware, Vol. 5, (Zhongguo jinyin boli falangci quanji - 5
falangci), Beijing 2002, p. 17, no. 18. Two other items in the same
publication are worth comparison; a Wanli-marked candlestick with a
chevron band to the interior similar to that found on the edge of the
rim and foot of our vessel, p. 94, no. 109; and a slightly later Kangxi
vessel of similar profile to ours but decorated with a more formalized
and less lively central band of meandering lotus, p. 131, no. 157.

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