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PROPERTY FROM THE SPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS, SOLD TO SUPPORT ART
ACQUISITIONS AND COLLECTIONS CARE
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A CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL TRIPOD CENSER
THE CLOISONNÉ, 16TH-17TH CENTURY; THE MOUNTS, 18TH CENTURY
The sides are decorated in cloisonné enamel with lotus blossoms each
supporting one of the Eight Buddhist Emblems (bajixiang) and interspersed
with Daoist emblems, all amidst leafy scrolls. The vessel has later-added
champlevé-decorated gilt-bronze mounts that form the mouth, the beast-form
handles, and the base which is raised on three elephant-head feet. The base
has an apocryphal Jingtai mark.
10Ω in. (26.7 cm.) across handles

$30,000-50,000
PROVENANCE:
George Walter Vincent Smith (1832-1923), Springfield, Massachusetts,
acquired prior to 1910.
LITERATURE:
B. Quette (ed.), Cloisonné Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming and Qing
Dynasties, Bard Graduate Center, New York, 2011, p. 287, no. 123.

斯普菲博物館珍藏，拍賣收益將用於藏品購藏及維護
掐絲琺瑯八吉祥蓮紋三足爐 掐絲琺瑯：十六/十七世紀 (detail)
鑲嵌部件：十八世紀
來源:
史喬沃先生（1832-1923），斯普林菲爾德，麻薩諸塞州，入藏於1910年以前。
出版:
B. Quette (編)，《Cloisonné Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming and Qing
Dynasties》， Bard Graduate Center，紐約， 2011年， 頁287， 圖版123。

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