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A RARE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL ‘ARROW’ VASE, TOUHU
Early Ming Dynasty
The compressed globular body rising to a tall cylindrical neck and
set with a pair of tubular handles, the exterior decorated in blue,
red, white, white, green and yellow enamels against a turquoise
ground with lotus and flower scrolls.
13.7cm (5 3/8in.) high.
HKD400,000 - 600,000
US$51,000 - 77,000

明早期 銅胎掐絲琺瑯纏枝蓮紋貫耳瓶

Provenance
An important European private collection

Exhibited
Museum fur Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, 2 April – 28 June, 1981.

Published and Illustrated
Dr. G.G.Avitabile, Die Ware aus dem Teufelsland, Chinesische und
japanische Cloisonné – und Champlevé-Arbeiten von 1400 bis 1900,
Germany, 1981, no.6.

來源：
歐洲重要私人收藏

展覽：
法蘭克福應用藝術博物館，1981年4月2日至6月28日

出版及著錄：
G.G.Avitabile博士，《Die Ware aus dem Teufelsland, Chinesische und
japanische Cloisonné – und Champlevé-Arbeiten von 1400 bis 1900》，
德國，1981年，編號6。

The form of the present vase is inspired by Song dynasty ceramics; 此類長頸貫耳瓶器形取春秋時代投壺而製，至清末都一直盛行。宋代
see for example a ge-ware ‘arrow’ vase, Song dynasty (11.3cm high), 時各大名瓷窯亦有仿製此器形，北京故宮博物院藏宋代哥窯貫耳長頸
in the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in The Complete Collection of 瓶即為一例，見《故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集：兩宋瓷器（下）》，
Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (II), 香港，1996年，圖37。
Hong Kong, 1996, pl.37.
見瑞士Pierre Uldry舊藏一例，器形及工藝與本品無異，時代定位十
Superbly enamelled, the present vase exhibits some of the finest 五世紀前半葉，見H.Brinker及A.Lutz，《Chinesisches Cloisonné: Die
elements of early Ming dynasty cloisonné enamel: a substantial bronze Sammlung Pierre Uldry》，蘇黎世，1984年，圖17。北京故宮亦藏
body, with heavy gilding framing the rims; a colour scheme of blue, 有一件明代銅胎掐絲琺瑯長頸貫耳瓶，見《故宮博物院藏品大系：
red, yellow and white reserved on a turquoise ground; and decorative 琺瑯器編1，元明掐絲琺瑯》，北京，2011年，圖67；另見兩例，於
motifs of a slightly more rounded lotus scroll, which was a style B.Quette著，《Cloisonné: Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming, and
inherited from its Yuan dynasty predecessors. Qing Dynasties》，紐約，2011年，圖13及20。紐約蘇富比曾售出一
例，時代定為明宣德，2015年9月15-16日，編號165。
A closely related example of a cloisonné enamel ‘arrow’ vase, first half
of the 15th century, is illustrated by H.Brinker and A.Lutz, Chinesisches
Cloisonné: Die Sammlung Pierre Uldry, Zurich, 1984, pl.17.

For several other examples of cloisonné enamel ‘arrow’ vases, early
Ming dynasty, measuring 11.5-14.6cm high, see Zheng Xinmiao, ed.,
Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Enamels 1, Cloisonné
in the Yuan (1271-1368) and Ming (1368-1644) Dynasties, Beijing, 2011,
pls.67; and B.Quette, ed., Cloisonné: Chinese Enamels from the Yuan,
Ming, and Qing Dynasties, New York, 2011, pls.13 and 20.

A related but slightly smaller (12.3cm high) cloisonné enamel arrow
vase, Xuande, was sold at Sotheby’s New York, 15-16 September
2015, lot 165.

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