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A CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL MOONFLASK

MING DYNASTY, 16TH-17TH CENTURY
Of fattened form, the moonfask is decorated on one side with a butterfy
in fight amidst leafy chrysanthemum stems, and on the other side with a
further butterfy amidst leafy camellia branches, all below two forets on the
cylindrical neck fanked by two arched handles.
6√ in. (17.5 cm.) high

$5,000-7,000

Compare two related moonfasks with fruit patterns, dated to the frst half
of the 17th century and illustrated by H. Brinker and A. Lutz in Chinesisches
Cloisonné: Die Sammlung Pierre Uldry, Museum Rietberg, Zurich, 1985,
pls.136 and 138.

明十六/十七世紀 掐絲琺瑯抱月瓶

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A PAIR OF CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL ELEPHANTS
18TH-19TH CENTURY

The elephants are made in mirror image, each with a head and body in white
enamel with gilt wires suggesting wrinkled skin, yellow eyes and gilt tusks, and
each caparisoned in a brightly patterned harness and a saddlecloth decorated
with a bat suspending a tasseled musical stone containing the character ji and
ending in a bejeweled yellow-ground fringe. Each elephant supports a double-
gourd vase decorated with lotus sprays.

12Ω in. (31.8 cm.) long (2)
$8,000-12,000

清十八/十九世紀 掐絲琺瑯太平有象擺件一對

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