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A CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL AND GILT BRONZE DOUBLE- The closest comparison with our vase appears to be an example
HANDLED VASE from the Palace Museum illustrated by Yang Boda (ed.) The Complete
Jingtai Mark, the vase 16th century, the mounts possibly 17th century Collection of Chinese of Chinese Gold and Silver, Glass Enamelware,
The cloisonné decorated with gently meandering formal lotus scrolls Vol. 5, (Zhongguo jinyin boli falangqi quanji - 5 - falangqi), Beijing,
on a turquoise blue ground around the entire body and neck, the 2002, p. 4 (text) and p. 10 (illustrations), no. 10. It too has animal form
mouth mounted in gilt bronze with a shallow cup-shaped rim with a handles with similar bifurcated tails. The cloisonné decoration itself
thin band of key-pattern, the neck of the vase mounted with two high- is also in wide registers between gilt-metal bowstring bands on the
relief mythical beast handles with bi-furcated tails rising vertically, the body, neck and foot. It is dated to the early Qing dynasty.
foot with a stepped gilt-bronze circular foot.
10 1/2in (26.7cm) high Another vessel with the addition of metal mounts illustrated in the
same publication, p. 58, no. 68, bears very similar lotus decoration
$50,000 - 80,000 with dark green leaves borne on gilt scrolling dividing large lotus
flower-heads.
十六世紀瓶身 鎏金鑲嵌或為十七世紀 銅胎掐絲琺瑯獸耳纏枝蓮花紋
瓶 《景泰年製》款 See also Sir Harry Garner, Chinese and Japanese Cloisonné Enamels,
London, 1962, p. 75, pl. 43, for a bottle vase with additional gilt
Provenance: handles dated to the second half 16th Century; and Helmut Brinker &
Roger Keverne Ltd., London Albert Lutz, Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry Collection, New York,
Asia Society Galleries, 1989, no. 108, for another pear-shaped vase
來源: with differing cloisonné decoration but similar gilt-bronze animal form
Roger Keverne Ltd.，倫敦 handles, and neck and foot mounts, and also bearing a Jingtai mark
to the base which is dated to the second half of the 16th century.

For a cloisonné vessel, zhadou, (5 ¼ inches high) dated to the
16th century and with two applied gilt-bronze dragon handles, see
Bonhams, London, 11 May 2021, lot 156. A larger vase of slightly
later date but with lotus decoration on a turquoise ground, was sold
at Bonhams, London, 13 May 2021, lot 13. Unlike our example it
does not have the addition of gilt bronze handles, foot rim and neck
extension. A related cloisonné enamel vase of similar shape, dated to
the second half 16th century is illustrated in Enamel Ware in the Ming
and Ch’ing Dynasties, Taipei, 1999, no. 8.

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