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PROPERTY FROM THE SPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS, SOLD TO SUPPORT ART PROPERTY FROM THE SPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS, SOLD TO SUPPORT ART
ACQUISITIONS AND COLLECTIONS CARE ACQUISITIONS AND COLLECTIONS CARE
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A CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL TRIPOD CENSER A RARE LARGE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL HU-FORM VASE
THE CLOISONNÉ, 16TH-17TH CENTURY; THE MOUNTS, 18TH QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
CENTURY
14 in. (35.6 cm.) high
The base has an apocryphal Jingtai mark.
10q in. (26.7 cm.) across handles $50,000-70,000
PROVENANCE:
$15,000-25,000
George Walter Vincent Smith (1832-1923), Springfield, Massachusetts,
PROVENANCE: acquired prior to 1910.
George Walter Vincent Smith (1832-1923), Springfield, Massachusetts,
acquired prior to 1910. The finely enameled scene on the present vase is densely rendered and full
of auspicious wishes. The pavilion scene on one side with a crane carrying
LITERATURE: a bamboo sprig references an abode of immortals rising from the sea and
B. Quette (ed.), Cloisonné Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming and Qing housing a magic vase. Whenever a crane would drop a bamboo counter
Dynasties, Bard Graduate Center, New York, 2011, p. 287, no. 123. into the vase, a man’s life expectancy would increase by 100 years. See T.T.
Bartholomew, Hidden Meanings in Chinese Art, San Francisco, 2006, p. 221.
The bats shown on the other side hovering over the water with a peach tree
斯普菲博ḵ館珍藏
拍賣收益將用於藏品㈂藏及維ㄼ
relays the message “May you be blessed by the mountain of longevity and
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ˠ紀 pine tree, the carefully chosen subjects woven through the scene relay a wish
Ϝ源 for long life.
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麻薩バਫ਼州
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