CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, XVIIEME SIECLE

Details

PETIT VASE EN BRONZE ET EMAUX CLOISONNES
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, XVIIEME SIECLE
En forme de grenade, la panse globulaire décorée de rinceaux feuillagés et lotus épanouis ou en boutons, le pourtour de la base rehaussé de petits pétales, l'extrémité du fruit formée de cinq pointes agrémentées de ruyi
Hauteur: 10,5 cm. (4 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Collection of Mr. F. Gordon Morill.
Bluett & Son Ltd., London, 19 December 1984.

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Further details

AN UNUSUAL BRONZE AND CLOISONNE ENAMEL POMEGRANATE-FORM VASE
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY

Lot Essay

This form appears to be very rare in cloisonné enamel and fairly rare in any other medium. Compare the current vase with another identical cloisonné vessel, although with a green background, sold in our London Rooms, 6 June 2000, lot 220.
See also an 18th century pomegranate-form vase, with a more elaborated pattern, sold in our New York Rooms, 30 March 2005, lot 148.

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