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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION
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A VERY RARE AND EXCEPTIONAL IMPERIAL
CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL ZUN-FORM VASE
XUANDE PERIOD (1426-1435)
The vase is cast with a spreading foot that rises to a
cushion-form mid-section and a trumpet neck, with
four gilt vertical flanges on each section. The sides are
decorated with peony blossoms on the foot, lotus scrolls
on the mid-section, and upright overlapping plantain
leaves with floral sprays on the neck. The interior of the
mouth is further decorated with peony scrolls above a
band of upright gilt plantain leaves. The later gilt-bronze
plaque base is incised with an apocryphal four-character
Jingtai mark within a double square.
7º in. (18.4 cm.) high

$300,000-500,000
PROVENANCE:
Private collection, France.
Sotheby’s Paris, 14 June 2007, lot 58.
EXHIBITED:
On loan: Kansas City, Missouri, The Nelson-Atkins
Museum of Art, October 2013 - January 2017.
重要私人珍藏
明宣德 御製掐絲琺瑯纏枝花卉紋出戟尊
來源:
法國私人珍藏。
巴黎蘇富比，2007年6月14日，拍品編號58。
展覽:
借展：堪薩斯城，密蘇里州，Nelson-Atkins美術館，
2013年10月-2017年1月。

Fig. 1. Cloisonné enamel vase (zun), Xuande period (1426-
1435), Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, The Avery
Brundage Collection, B60P288. After B. Quette (ed.),
Cloisonné: Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming and
Qing Dynasties, New York, 2011, p. 236, no. 24.
圖一 明宣德掐絲琺琅出戟尊，舊金山亞洲藝術博物館，艾弗
里·布倫戴奇珍舊藏，B60P288。載於B. Quette 編 《Cloisonné:
Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties》，紐
約，2011年， 頁 236， 編號 24。
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