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AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL AND
GILT-BRONZE BOX AND COVER
Jingtai incised six-character marks, first half 15th century
Of circular form, the box exquisitely enamelled in vivid red, sapphire,
yellow, white and green on a turquoise ground, the cover decorated
with a large Indian lotus bloom with stylised ruyi-shaped petals
around a smaller-lotus scroll, the sides of the cover and body with a
scroll formed by ten smaller lotus blossoms borne on an undulating
vine forming a scroll, the gilt cover interior and base both incised
with a six-character mark reading daming jingtai nianzhi.
11.8cm (4 1/2in) diam. (2).
HKD2,500,000 - 3,500,000
US$320,000 - 450,000
十五世紀上半葉 掐絲琺瑯番蓮紋蓋盒 陰刻「大明景泰年製」款
Image after H.Brinker and A.Lutz, Chinesisches Cloisonné: Die Image courtesy of the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Springfield
Sammlung Pierre Uldry, Zurich, 1984. pl.12 美國春田George Walter Vincent Smith藝術博物館藏
瑞士Pierre Uldry收藏
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