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A CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL BALUSTER VASE, HU
17th century
Well cast with a globular body supported on a
spreading foot rising to a waisted neck, set with a
pair of taotie ring-handles at the shoulder, brightly
and lavishly enamelled around the exterior with
shaped panels containing auspicious birds in a
garden setting, all reserved on a turquoise ground
decorated with cracked-ice and flowers, between
bands of further floral motifs and grape vines.
38cm (15in) high.

£5,000 - 8,000
CNY44,000 - 70,000

十七世紀 銅胎掐絲琺瑯開光花鳥紋活環耳壺

Provenance: an English private collection

來源：英國私人收藏

Compare with a related cloisonné enamel baluster
vase, Kangxi, illustrated by Beatrice Quette, ed.,
Cloisonné: Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming,
and Qing Dynasties, London, 2011, p.259, no.69.

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A CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL ‘LOTUS’ VASE, HU
17th century
Brightly decorated around the pear-shaped body
with bands of large Indian-lotus heads borne on
scrolling leafy stems reserved on a turquoise-blue
ground, set at the shoulder with two large gilt-
bronze lion-mask handles suspending loose rings,
all supported on a tall spreading foot.
50cm (19 3/4in) high.

£5,000 - 8,000
CNY44,000 - 70,000

十七世紀 銅胎掐絲琺瑯纏枝蓮紋壺

Compare with a similar vase, 17th century, illustrated
by B.Quette, ed., Cloisonné: Chinese Enamels from
the Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties, New York,
2011, p.258, no.68.

See a similar, smaller cloisonné enamel ‘lotus’ vase,
17th century, which was sold at Sotheby’s Hong
Kong, 7 April 2015, lot 3727.
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