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Cloisonne enamel landscape panels of this large size, that frame the lake and contours of the landscape, closely
brilliantly decorated with a wondrous landscape scene in relate to that on the famous 17th century ‘Jardinere Tissot’,
multi-coloured enamels, are extremely rare. which was in the Tissot, Helleu and David-Weill collections,
and now preserved in the Musée des Art Decoratifs, Paris,
The counterpart to this panel in the Uldry collection,
enamelled with a scene of a scholar in a pavilion within a illustrated in Beatrice Quette, ed., Cloisonne: Chinese Enamels
similarly luxuriant landscape, and similarly framed by a border from the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, New York, 2011, cat.
of writhing dragons, is illustrated in Helmut Brinker and Albert no. 160, and on the cover.
Lutz, Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry Collection, London, The rendition of the dragons depicted writhing around the
1989, cat. no. 151, dated to the first half of the 17th century. edges of the landscape panel closely relate to those on a
The closest related example sold at auction is a smaller (47 Jiajing reign-marked ‘dragon’ dish in the Palace Museum,
cm long) ‘landscape’ panel from the Alfred Morrison collection Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of
and the Fonthill Heirlooms, sold at Christie’s London, 18th the Palace Museum. Metal-bodied Enamel Ware, Hong Kong,
October 1971, lot 119, and again at Parke Bernet galleries, 17th 2002, no. 46. This suggests that the current panel could date
January 1976, lot 361. to as early as the Jiajing period.
The texture of the enamelling and precise decorative
techniques, notably the undulating waves in the gilt cloisons

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