A MASSIVE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL 'PHOENIX TAIL' VASE
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DAVID B. PECK III
A MASSIVE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL 'PHOENIX TAIL' VASE

LATE MING-EARLY QING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY

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A MASSIVE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL 'PHOENIX TAIL' VASE
LATE MING-EARLY QING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY
The vase is decorated with an allover design of lotus scroll interrupted on the shoulder by a blue, flower-filled ruyi collar and three applied, gilt-bronze lion masks suspending loose rings. The tall, trumpet-shaped neck has a bronze petal-lappet band at its base and is flanked by a pair of large gilded dragon-form handles.
41 in. (104 cm.) high, copper liner
Provenance
Christie's New York, 4 June 1992, lot 132.
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Please note the dating in Chinese for this lot is incorrect.

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Lot Essay

A similar gilt, petal-lappet band at the base of the neck and similar multicolored lotus petal borders at the base of the neck and above the foot can be seen on a smaller vase (15 1/16 in.) of similar type, and with similar lotus scroll decoration, illustrated by Claudia Brown in Chinese Cloisonné: The Clague Collection, Phoenix Art Museum, 1980, pp. 64-65, pl. 24, where it is dated to the second half of the seventeenth century. Unlike the present vase, gilt flanges are applied to the neck and body, and the vase rests on a domed foot. Another vase of this type, decorated with lotus scroll and a similar ruyi collar on the shoulder, but with flanges, is illustrated by H. Brinker and A. Lutz in Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry Collection, The Asia Society Galleries, New York, 1989, no. 179, and is also dated second half seventeenth century.

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