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A number of Ming dynasty cloisonné enamel vessels was later
embellished or adapted during the Qing dynasty. For a zhadou
from the Qing court collection and still in Beijing, bearing
similar registers of design to the present lot, but supported
on three later-added winged mythical beasts and applied with
animal-mask handles to the shoulders, see The Complete
Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Metal-bodied
Enamel Ware, Hong Kong, 2002, no. 39. See also a zhadou of
similar form in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated
in Enamel Ware in the Ming and Ch’ing Dynasty, National
Palace Museum, Taipei, 1999, cat. no. 6.
A zhadou in the Musée des Arts Decoratifs in Paris enamelled
with the same design and dated to the mid-16th century
was included in the exhibition Cloisonné: Chinese Enamels
from the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, Bard Graduate
Center, New York, 2011, cat. no. 43. The design also appears
on cloisonné enamel bowls of the same period, such as
one illustrated in Sir Harry Garner, Chinese and Japanese
Cloisonné Enamels, London, 1962, pl. 31B.