LATE QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

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A CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL MOONFLASK
LATE QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY
Each convex, circular side is centered by a raised medallion decorated with a flower head encircled by angular scrolls, which is surrounded by four ruyi heads linked with leaves, and with four bats amidst flower scroll, all on a black ground. The narrow sides are decorated with lotus scroll below the pair of red dragon-form handles that flank the neck. A two-character maker's mark, Decheng, is stamped in relief on the gilt-bronze base.
11¼ in. (28.5 cm.) high

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The same similarly executed maker's mark, Decheng, is on the gilded base of a vase in the collection of the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum illustrated by Bèatrice Quette (ed.) in Cloisonné: Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, Bard Graduate Center, New York, 2011, p. 299, no. 146, which is dated 19th century. The same mark is on two pairs of cloisonné enamel tazze with gilt-bronze dragon handles from the C. Ruxton and Audrey B. Love Collection sold at Christie's New York, 20 October 2004, lots 445 and 446, which were also dated 19th century. According to Quette, p. 167, Decheng was an enameling workshop based in Beijing during the 19th century.

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