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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE ENGLISH COLLECTION

1090

A CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL ‘PRUNUS’ BOWL 1090
MING DYNASTY, 16TH-17TH CENTURY

明十六/十七世紀 掐絲琺瑯花卉紋碗 PROVENANCE:

The bowl is decorated on the exterior with birds perched on sprays of prunus Property from a private English collection.

and on the interior with a central stylised fower head surrounded by further A slightly larger bowl dating to the late 16th century, with a similar decorative
format but with pine and prunus, is in the collection of the Musée des
foral roundels and fowers. Arts Décoratifs, Paris, illustrated by Beatrice Quette in Cloisonné: Chinese
Enamels from the Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties,
7º in. (18.3 cm.) diam. New York, 2011, p. 247, no. 46.

£4,000-6,000 $6,100-9,100
€5,500-8,100

1091

A CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL HEXAGONAL SPITTOON
AND COVER, ZHADOU
18TH CENTURY

清十八世紀 掐絲琺瑯纏枝花卉壽字紋渣斗

Each side of the exterior is decorated with a shou symbol
framed by scrolls, the wide rim with lotus fowers amongst
classical scroll and the domed cover with lotus blooms. It is
applied to the cover with a hexagonal bud-form fnial and is
ftted to the interior with a gilt-metal liner.

5√ in. (15 cm.) diam.

£4,000-6,000 $6,100-9,100
€5,500-8,100

PROVENANCE:

Property from a private English collection.

Compare the current spittoon to a pair of bowls and covers
of similar hexagonal form but with ruyi head decoration,
dating to the Qianlong period (1736-1795), which sold at
Christie’s Hong Kong, 26 November 2014, lot 3371.

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