A VERY RARE MING CLOISONNE ENAMEL BOTTLE VASE, YUHUCHUNPING

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A VERY RARE MING CLOISONNE ENAMEL BOTTLE VASE, YUHUCHUNPING
MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY

The pear-shaped vase finely enamelled with a vibrant design of the 'Three Abundances', depicting three heavily laden branches of peach, pomegranate and finger citron, together with their respective flowers, growing upright from blue rockwork and extending up the slender neck of the vase, all against a rich turquoise-blue ground wire-inlaid with cloud motifs, between a lappet band at the base and ruyi-clouds around the flared mouthrim
15 3/8 in. (39 cm.) high

Lot Essay

An identical vase is in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, illustrated in Enamel Ware in the Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties, Taiwan, 1999, pl. 9; another example was sold in our London Rooms, 10 December 1990, lot 281; and a related vase is illustrated by Pierre Uldry, Chinesisches Cloisonne, Zurich, 1985, p. 138.

The 'Three Abundances' theme was a popular one in the decorative arts because of their auspicious meanings - the peach represents longevity, the pomegranate, fertility and abundance, and the finger citron symbolises riches.

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