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A large cloisonne enamel yenyen vase, late Ming/early Qing…
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Sydney
Date:
27-Oct-2015
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A large cloisonne enamel yenyen vase, late Ming/early Qing dynasty, 17th century the sides decorated with scrolling stems of lotus blooms, interrupted around the shoulders with a ruyi -shaped collar of different flowers including lotus, peony, chrysanthemum and magnolia, and extending over the trumpet shaped neck and interior of the wide flared mouth, the base of the neck with a frieze of florettes above a gilt band of archaistic dragons and a border of radiating petals, the shoulders applied with three gilt bronze phoenix suspending loose rings, and the neck flanked by a pair of large dragon-form handles, the splayed base encircled with pendent lappets, the circular bronze stand supported on three winged bixie, each crouched with head raised biting the rim, the underside with a six-character Jingtai mark in a rectangle encircled with two dragons pursuing a flaming pearl, 70 cm high. Provenance, Private Collection, Scotland, acquired in Beijing in the late 19th century, Private Collection, Sydney, by descent from the above, In 1925 the vase was shown to Mr R.L. Hobson at the British Museum in London. He wrote a note advising that the mark on the vase was 'that of the Ching T'ai period (1450-56)'. This note accompanies the vase., Show Catalogue Notes, Catalogue Notes, A smaller vase of similar type but with gilt flanges is illustrated by Claudia Brown in Chinese Cloisonne: The Clague Collection, Phoenix Art Museum, 1980, pp. 64-65, pl. 24, and another similar is illustrated by H. Brinker and A. Lutz, Chinese Cloisonne: The Pierre Uldry Collection, The Asia Society Galleries, New York, 1989, no. 179. Compare with a vase without a stand and with different applied decoration, from the David B. Peck III collection, sold Christie's New York, Rivers of Color: Cloisonne Enamels from Private American Collections, 18 September 2014, lot 603
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Oriental: Cloisonne