MING DYNASTY, 16TH/17TH CENTURY

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A RARE PAIR OF CLOISONNE ENAMEL BARREL-FORM STOOLS
MING DYNASTY, 16TH/17TH CENTURY
The sides decorated with four quatrefoil panels, one decorated with a pair of cranes in a setting of blue pierced rocks, camellias and blossoming prunus branches, the reverse with a phoenix standing amidst similar rocks and tree peonies below a magnolia branch, another panel with a pair of ducks in a lotus pond and the fourth with three goats amidst further rocks and a flowering vine, all reserved on a diaper ground between bands of gilt-metal bosses and bands of lotus scroll, the domed top with three buddhistic lions frolicking around a ribbon-tied stylized flowerhead, applied with a pair of lion-mask handles suspending loose rings
15½ in. (39.4 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Roger Keverne, London, September 1997.

Lot Essay

Compare two cloisonné enamel garden seats of this form, with similar decoration, but with the panels of birds, rocks and flowers separated by archaistic scroll borders, one dated to the 16th century, illustrated by V. Reynolds and Yen Fen Pei, Chinese Art from the Newark Museum, China House Gallery, China Institute in America, New York, 19 March - 25 May 1980, no. 23; the other in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, dated Ming dynasty, illustrated by J. and A.H. Burling, Chinese Art, New York, 1953, p. 330 (top).

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