LATE MING DYNASTY, 16TH-17TH CENTURY

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A CLOISONNE ENAMEL GU-FORM VASE
LATE MING DYNASTY, 16TH-17TH CENTURY
Modelled after an archaic bronze gu-form, the vase is decorated with four tall blade-shaped panels on the trumpet neck, each filled with lotus, chrysanthemum, white mallow and camellia sprays on a blue ground, reserved on a turquoise ground decorated with grape vines. The mid-section is further decorated with flowering branches and grape vines divided by four flanges repeated on the similarly decorated pedestal base. The base is incised with an apocryphal Jingtai four-character mark.
12 1/16 in. (30.9 cm.) high, box

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Lot Essay

Compare the present vase to a slightly smaller one (28.8 cm.), dated to the Xuande period and with closely related decoration, in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Metal-Bodied Enamel Ware, Hong Kong, 2002, p. 26, no. 24. Another very similar vase was included in the exhibition at the Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt an Main, Die Ware aus dem Teufelsland, 1981, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 7.

Compare also the related cloisonné enamel gu-form vase of broader proportions and with a cast Jingtai mark on the base, illustrated in Masterpieces of Chinese Enamel Ware in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1971, no. 6.

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