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A CLOISONNE ENAMEL 明十六世紀 掐絲琺瑯寶鴨熏爐

AND GILT-BRONZE ‘DUCK’
來源：
INCENSE BURNER AND The Oriental Art Gallery Ltd，倫敦，1995年

COVER David B. Peck 三世收藏
紐約佳士得2014年9月18日，編號604
MING DYNASTY, 16TH 展覽：

CENTURY 《Oriental Works of Art》，The Oriental Art Gallery Ltd，倫
敦，1995年，編號116
well cast in the form of a duck standing on its right webbed foot
with the left raised, atop an associated 16th century gilt-bronze
stepped beaded-edged pedestal with a pendent lotus border,
the bird depicted with its gilt-bronze head slightly turned to
the left with its beak rendered agape and revealing its slender
tongue, inlaid with beaded yellow eyes in paste, the exterior of
the hollow body, neck and upturned tail brightly enamelled with
undulating streaks of plumage, the cover forming the back of
the bird and similarly rendered with bright plumage, centred
with a pierced circular aperture in the form of a cash coin
24 cm, 9⅜ in.
PROVENANCE
The Oriental Art Gallery Ltd, London, 1995.
Collection of David B. Peck III.
Christie’s New York, 18th September 2014, lot 604.

EXHIBITED
Oriental Works of Art, The Oriental Art Gallery Ltd, London,
1995, cat. no. 116.

HK$ 800,000-1,000,000
US$ 102,000-128,000

It is rare to find a Ming dynasty Imperial cloisonné enamel For another Ming dynasty bird-form incense burner, see a
incense burner of this high quality, created in the form of a cloisonné enamel example in the form of a waterfowl in the
mandarin duck. Another closely related example from the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Enamel Ware
Qing Court collection, depicted standing on a stylised lotus in the Ming and Ch’ing Dynasties, Taipei, 1999, pl. 42. See
leaf, preserved in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in also a goose-form incense burner, lacking its pedestal, from
The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. the collection of David David-Weill and now in Musée des
Metal-bodied Enamel Ware, Hong Kong, 2002, pl. 76. The Arts Décoratifs, Paris, is illustrated in Beatrice Quette, ed.,
overall structure, modelling technique and precise treatment Cloisonné. Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming, and Qing
of the enamelled design and specific details including the Dynasties, New York, 2011, p. 277, cat. no. 104.
poised webbed feet, closely relate to the current example.
Compare also the cloisonné enamel ‘mandarin duck’ incense
burner sold in these rooms, 3rd April 2018, lot 3448, from the
Speelman collection.

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