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                                                                              A LARGE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL
                                                                              ‘LOTUS’ VASE, YUHUCHUNPING
                                                                              17th century
                                                                              The pear-shaped body rising from a spreading
                                                                              foot to a waisted neck flaring at the rim,
                                                                              brightly decorated on a turquoise ground
                                                                              with five registers of lotus blossoms borne
                                                                              on dense meandering foliate scrolls, below a
                                                                              band of pendent ruyi heads encircling the rim,
                                                                              the foot decorated with floral scrolls.
                                                                              42.5cm (16 3/4in) high.

                                                                              £6,000 - 10,000
                                                                              CNY54,000 - 90,000

                                                                              十七世紀 銅胎掐絲琺瑯纏枝蓮紋玉壺春瓶

                                                                              Provenance: a European private collection

                                                                              來源:歐洲私人收藏

                                                                              Pear-shaped cloisonné enamel vases of this
                                                                              form are rare, a related pear-shaped candle-
                                                                              holder decorated with scrolling lotus, second
                                                                              half 17th century, is illustrated by H.Brinker
                                                                              and A.Lutz, Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre
                                                                              Uldry Collection, London, 1989, no.205. See
                                                                              also a related cloisonné enamel vase of similar
                                                                              shape, second half 16th century, illustrated
                                                                              in Enamel Ware in the Ming and Ch’ing
                                                                              Dynasties, Taipei, 1999, no.8.

                                                                              See a similar large cloisonné enamel vase,
                                                                              17th century, which was sold at Christie’s
                                                                              London, 10 May 2011, lot 136.




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                                                                              A RARE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL AND GILT-
                                                                              BRONZE TRIPOD INCENSE BURNER
                                                                              16th century
                                                                              The vessel of a compressed globular form
                                                                              supported on three gilt-bronze elephant feet,
                                                                              the flat rim cast with a pair of gilt-bronze
                                                                              handles shaped as sinuous chilong, decorated
                                                                              around the sides with six large blossoming
                                                                              lotus heads borne on scrolling leafy tendrils,
                                                                              below a green-ground band of flower-heads,
                                                                              the base with further flower-heads.
                                                                              20.5cm (8in) wide.

                                                                              £12,000 - 18,000
                                                                              CNY110,000 - 160,000


                                                                              十六世紀 銅鎏金掐絲琺瑯纏枝蓮紋沖耳象
                                                                              足爐

                          13                                                  Provenance: Galerie Gross, Wiesbaden,
                                                                              Germany, 31 October 1986 (invoice)
                                                                              A European private collection

                                                                              來源: 於1986年10月31日購自德國威斯巴登
                                                                              Galerie Gross(發票)
                                                                              歐洲私人收藏




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