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THE CUNLIFFE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL
‘POMEGRANATES’ BOX AND COVER
康利夫勳爵舊藏銅胎掐絲琺瑯石榴紋蓋盒
234
AN EXTREMELY RARE AND IMPORTANT
CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL ‘POMEGRANATES’
Lot 234: Lord Cunliffe’s inventory list CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER
Incised Xuande six-character marks and of
the period
The slightly-domed cover exquisitely
enamelled in gradating tones of red, green
and yellow in the centre with two ripe
pomegranates, one bursting with ruby-red
seeds highlighted with white, issuing from
gnarled gold branches with blossoms and
further smaller fruit, the undulating leaves with
shades of red, yellow and blue picked with
gold veins, the vertical sides of the cover and
box decorated with formal lotus scrolls, the
slightly recessed base incised with a Xuande
six-character mark, the interior of the cover
similarly incised with a six-character mark.
12cm (4 3/4in) diam. (2).
Lot 234: Mostra D’Arte Cinese (Exhibition of Chinese Art), Venice, £400,000 - 600,000
1954, p.203, no.754 CNY3,600,000 - 5,300,000
明宣德 掐絲琺瑯石榴紋蓋盒
「大明宣德年製」楷書刻款

Provenance: Spink and Son, Ltd., London,
purchased by Lord Cunliffe in 1946
Rolf, Lord Cunliffe (1899-1963), Honorary
Keeper of the Far Eastern Collections at the
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (collection
no.E2), and thence by descent

Published, Illustrated and Exhibited:
Mostra D’Arte Cinese (Exhibition of Chinese
Art), Venice, 1954, p.203, no.754
The Arts Council of Great Britain and the
Lot 234: The Arts of The Ming Dynasty, 15 November - 14 December Oriental Ceramic Society, The Arts of The
1957, no.300 Ming Dynasty, 15 November - 14 December
1957, no.300 (published and exhibited)
H.Garner, Chinese and Japanese Cloisonné
Enamels, London and Boston, 1962, pl.23
(published)

來源：1946年，倫敦古董商Spink and Son,
Ltd.
劍橋大學菲茨威廉博物館東方藝術部名譽主
任，Rolf，Cunliffe勛爵（1899-1963）舊藏
（藏品編號E2），並由後人保存迄今

展覽著錄：「Mostra D’Arte Cinese（中國藝
術展）」，威尼斯，1954年，頁203，編號
754
英國藝術委員會與倫敦東方陶瓷學會，
「The Arts of the Ming Dynasty（明朝藝術）
」，1957年11月15日-12日14日，編號300
（展覽並出版）
H.Garner著，《Chinese and Japanese
Cloisonné Enamels（中國與日本掐絲琺瑯）
》，倫敦和波士頓，1962年，圖版23
Lot 234: H.Garner, Chinese and Japanese Cloisonné Enamels,
London and Boston, 1962, pl.23
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