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3106 Bluett & Sons炻ΐ㔎炻1985⸜6㚰4㖍
Juan Jose Amezaga䍵啷炻⶜湶Ἓ⢓⼿炻2007⸜6㚰13㖍炻㉵⑩
AN IMPORTANT AND RARE CLOISONNE 1嘇
ENAMEL TRIPOD CENSER S Marchant & Son炻ΐ㔎
ΐ㔎喯⭴㭼炻2013⸜5㚰15㖍炻㉵⑩259嘇
XUANDE PERIOD (1426-1435)
S Marchant & Son炻˪Recent Acquisitions˫炻ΐ㔎炻2008⸜炻
The censer is cast of circular section, finely enamelled around the 6枩炻䶐嘇1
shallow straight sides with a scrolling multi-coloured lotus band
under the mouth rim bound with gilt-metal, flanked by a pair of ⶜湶墅梦喅埻⌂䈑棐啷㚱ᶨẞ役Ụ䘬⭋⽟㌸䴚䏢䐗䆸炻℞
‘S’-shaped handles, all supported on three ruyi-shaped feet. 暁俛⍲夗墉㕤⋩ℓᶾ䲨㗪䴻㚧㎃炻夳䲸䲬2011⸜ Bard 䞼䨞
13 in. (33.2 cm.) wide ᷕ⽫↢䇰˪Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming, and Qing
Dynasties˫⯽奥⚾抬炻⚾䇰22嘇ˤ
HK$1,000,000-1,500,000 US$130,000-190,000

PROVENANCE

Bluett & Sons, London, 4 June 1985
Collection of Juan Jose Amezaga, sold at Christie’s Paris, 13 June
2007, lot 1
S Marchant & Son, London
Sold at Sotheby’s London, 15 May 2013, lot 259

EXHIBITED

S Marchant & Son, Recent Acquisitions, London, 2008, p. 6, no. 1

A slightly smaller Xuande tripod censer of this form, with replacement
handles and liner dating to the 18th century, in Musée des Arts
Décoratifs, is illustrated by Beatrice Quette, ed., in Cloisonne, Chinese
Enamels from the Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties, New York, Bard
Graduate Center, 2011, p. 235, fig. no. 22.

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