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A RARE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL ‘FLORAL’ 明宣德 銅胎掐絲琺瑯纏枝花卉紋盞托
CUPSTAND 《大明宣德年製》款
MARK AND PERIOD OF XUANDE
the base incised with a six-character mark filled with blue 來源
enamel within a circle 麻省私人收藏
Diameter 7⅝ in., 19.3 cm
PROVENANCE
Massachusetts Private Collection.
Xuande mark and period cloisonné enamel cupstands are
rare. Compare a closely related example with a stylized lotus
in the center and a wave border on the flanged rim with a
similarly incised six-character mark filled with dark blue
enamel within a circle, illustrated in Sir Harry Garner, Chinese
and Japanese Cloisonné Enamels, London, 1962, col. pl. B and
pl. 95A (mark). Another related example with a different lotus
motif in the center and a similar blue-enameled mark was
sold in our London rooms, 16th June 1999, lot 704.
Compare three further cupstands, but each with an incised
double-outlined six-character mark: the first bears a similar
twelve-petal ‘floral’ medallion, in the Pierre Uldry Collection,
illustrated in ibid., col. pl. 22, later sold in our London rooms,
2rd July 1968, lot 49, then included in Helmut Brinker and
Albert Lutz, Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry Collection,
London, 1989, no. 23; the second, with a ‘lotus’ medallion,
is in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, and is
illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the
Palace Museum: Metal-bodied Enamel Ware, Hong Kong,
2002, pl. 28; and the third, also with a ‘lotus’ medallion, was
sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 26th November 2013, lot 3460.
$ 30,000-50,000

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