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AN EXCEPTIONALLY LARGE AND RARE IMPERIAL
CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL DISH
Wanli enamelled six-character mark and of the period
The interior brightly and boldly decorated in multi-coloured enamels
with two five-clawed dragons confronted within a field of scattered
flower sprigs, encircled by a ruyi-head band and multi-coloured lotus
scrolls with attendant buds blanketing the cavetto, the everted rim
with Buddhist emblems and babao, repeated further on the exterior,
the base enamelled in red with a six-character reign mark reserved
on a large greenish-turquoise rectangle within key-fret and ruyi
borders surrounded by scattered multi-coloured clouds, all on a
bluish-turquoise ground.
57cm (22 3/8in.) diam.

HKD3,500,000 - 4,500,000
US$450,000 - 580,000
明萬曆 銅胎掐絲琺琅纏枝菊紋雙龍大盤
「大明萬曆年造」楷書款

Provenance
Sotheby’s London, 21 July 1969, lot 91
Cornelius Ruxton Love Jr. (1904 - 1971) and Audrey B. Love
(1903 - 2003), New York
Christie’s New York, The C. Ruxton and Audrey B. Love Collection,
20 October 2004, lot 612

來源：
倫敦蘇富比，1969年7月21日，拍品91
紐約藏家Cornelius Ruxton Love Jr.先生 (1904 - 1971)及Audrey B.
Love女士(1903 - 2003)收藏
紐約佳士得，「C. Ruxton先生及Audrey B. Love女士收藏」專場拍
賣，2004年10月20日，拍品612
Audrey B. Love, a philanthropist and patron of the arts, was the
daughter of Edith Guggenheim and Admiral Louis Josephthal.
C. Ruxton Love Jr. was a partner with the Stock Exchange firm
of Josephtal & Co. Both were well known art collectors and their
collection of Napoleonic art was exhibited in the Metropolitan
Museum of Art in 1978 and their Georgian silver collection was
exhibited in the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2002. Audrey Love
was a founding member of the Lowe Art Museum of the University
of Miami.

Audrey B. Love為美國慈善家及藝術品收藏家，為著名的古根海姆
家族及約瑟夫塔爾上將的女兒。 C. Ruxton Love 先生是美國證券
商Josephtal & Co.公司的合夥人。兩人均是知名的藝術品收藏家，
他們收藏的與拿破崙相關的藝術品於1978年在紐約大都會藝術博物
館展出，銀器收藏於2002年在英國國立維多利亞和阿伯特博物館展
出。Audrey B. Love還是是邁阿密大學洛維藝術博物館的創始人。

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