A PAIR OF CLOISONNE ENAMEL ‘ARCHAISTIC’ VASES, ZUN

QIANLONG-JIAQING PERIOD (1736-1820)

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A PAIR OF CLOISONNE ENAMEL ‘ARCHAISTIC’ VASES, ZUN

QIANLONG-JIAQING PERIOD (1736-1820)
Each vase is divided on the exterior with four evenly-spaced sections by gilt-bronze flanges, the globular body and flaring foot are boldly decorated with taotie masks. The flaring neck is decorated with a confronting kui dragon band below four petal-shaped panels enclosing further taotie separated by flowerheads on a honeycomb ground. Each gilt-bronze base is incised with an apocryphal Jingtai mark.
15 1/8 in. (38.3 cm.) high (2)

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Compare with a slightly taller (39.5 cm. high) zun with an almost identical decoration and a four-character apocryphal Jingtai mark, dated to the Qianlong period, sold at Christie’s Paris, 22 November 2005, lot 124.

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