18TH CENTURY

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A GILT-SPLASHED VASE; AND A GILT-SPLASHED TRIPOD CENSER
18TH CENTURY
The vase of a slender ovoid form and short waisted neck, with applied lion-mask loop handles suspending loose-rings, covered overall in irregular gilt splashes 5 7/8 in. (14.9 cm.) high; and a small censer of compressed form with curved shell-form handles and supported on cabriole feet with ruyi motifs, decorated to the neck with confronting stylised dragons seperated by shou characters, the underside with a Xuande six-character mark, covered all over with irregular gilt splashes 5 in. (12.7 cm.) wide (2)

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Lot Essay

A similar slender shaped gilt-splashed vase was sold in these Rooms, 11 December 1990, lot 41. Also see a similarly shaped censer in cloisonné with the unusual arched upright handles in The Pierre Uldry Collection, illustrated in, Helmut Brinker and Albert Lutz, Chinesisches Cloisonne Die Sammlung Pierre Uldry, Museum Rietberg, Zürich, 1985, no.15

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