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208 A CLOISONNE ENAMEL BOWL
206 SOTHEBY’S MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY

the steep rounded sides rising from a splayed
foot to a aring rim, the interior central medallion
with a carp emerging from swirling waves beneath
a colorful sun, the cavetto with four horses
frolicking above cresting waves between bands
of scrolls, the exterior with the ‘Three Friends of
Winter,’ all against a blue ground, the base with a
red lotus surrounded by scrolled clouds
Diameter 9 in., 22.9 cm

PROVENANCE
European Private Collection (by repute).
A closely related 16th century cloisonné bowl
bearing the ‘Three Friends of Winter’ motif in
the collection of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs,
Paris, was included in the exhibition Cloisonné:
Chinese Enamels form the Yuan, Ming, and Qing
Dynasties, Bard Graduate Center, New York,
2011, cat. no. 46. A pair of bowls of the same date
and design sold at Wooley & Wallis, 22nd May
2007, lot 93. The ‘Three Friends’ also appear
on contemporaneous cloisonné works of other
shapes, for example a baluster vase in the Pierre
Uldry Collection, illustrated in Helmut Brinker and
Albert Lutz, Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry
Collection, New York, 1989, pl. 91.

$ 20,000-30,000

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PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK COLLECTION

A CLOISONNE ENAMEL ‘LOTUS’
VASE
MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY

of yuhuchun form, the pear-shaped body rising
from a spreading foot to a waisted neck aring
at the rim, brightly decorated against a turquoise
ground with four registers of lotus blossoms
borne on dense meandering foliate scrolls, below
a band of pendent ruyi heads encircling the rim,
the foot similarly decorated with lotus srolls
Height 13⅜ in., 34 cm

PROVENANCE
Roger Keverne, London.

$ 10,000-15,000

Roger Keverne