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Lot Essay
While there is a considerable number of cloisonné enamel vessels decorated with birds and flowers from the Qianlong period, very few of them are of the same imposing size, complexity of design as well as variety of colours as on the current vase.
Comparable examples include a baluster vase of slightly smaller proportions, decorated with a medallion enclosing an imperial poem, surrounded by birds and flowers similar to the current vase but of less colour variations, from the Beijing Palace Museum and illustrated in Enamels 2: Cloisonne in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum, Beijing, 2011, pl. 193; another cloisonné enamel hanging screen decorated with black and white magpies perched on a plum tree also from the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in Enamels 3: Cloisonne in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum, Beijing, 2011, pl. 62.
For a 17th century example, see a Jingtai-marked cloisonné enamel vase adorned with a bird and flower scene and applied with three gilt ram heads, from the National Palace Museum, Taipei illustrated in Enamel Ware in the Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties, Taipei, 1999, pl. 12.
Comparable examples include a baluster vase of slightly smaller proportions, decorated with a medallion enclosing an imperial poem, surrounded by birds and flowers similar to the current vase but of less colour variations, from the Beijing Palace Museum and illustrated in Enamels 2: Cloisonne in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum, Beijing, 2011, pl. 193; another cloisonné enamel hanging screen decorated with black and white magpies perched on a plum tree also from the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in Enamels 3: Cloisonne in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum, Beijing, 2011, pl. 62.
For a 17th century example, see a Jingtai-marked cloisonné enamel vase adorned with a bird and flower scene and applied with three gilt ram heads, from the National Palace Museum, Taipei illustrated in Enamel Ware in the Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties, Taipei, 1999, pl. 12.