CHINE, DYNASTIE MING, XVIEME SIECLE

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PETITE COUPE EN BRONZE ET EMAUX CLOISONNES
CHINE, DYNASTIE MING, XVIEME SIECLE
De forme circulaire, ornée au centre de deux canards mandarins aux plumages chatoyants, l'un debout, l'autre couché sous des lotus, la bordure rehaussée de fines volutes fleuries
Diamètre: 16,7 cm. (6 9/16 in.)

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A BRONZE AND CLOISONNE ENAMEL CIRCULAR SAUCER DISH
CHINA, MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY

Lot Essay

Compare the current dish with two others, almost identical, one from the Pierre Uldry Collection and illustrated in H. Brinker and A. Lutz, Chinesisches Cloisonné - Die Sammlung Pierre Uldry, Museum Rietberg, Zurich 1985, pl.48 ; the other illustrated in D. Lion-Goldschmidt, Arts de la Chine, Fribourg 1963, pp.198-199, pl.91.
See a square dish from the same period and also decorated with mandarin ducks, sold in our London Rooms, 16 November 1999, lot 114.

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