Lot Essay
Cf. the very similar hu illustrated by Garner in Chinese and Japanese Cloisonné enamels, pl.53.
17TH CENTURY
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A LATE MING CLOISONNE ENAMEL SQUARE VASE, HU
17th century
Variously decorated on each side of the body with a pair of cranes, a pair of peacocks, a parrot in a pine tree above a dog, and a pair of deer below a monkey in a peach tree, each amidst dense flowering branches including peony, prunus and peach blossom, below two flower-head handles suspending loose rings on a band of stylized animal scrolls at the shoulder and stiff leaves at the flaring neck and above galloping horses at the spreading foot, pitting and some infill
15in. (38cm.) high
17th century
Variously decorated on each side of the body with a pair of cranes, a pair of peacocks, a parrot in a pine tree above a dog, and a pair of deer below a monkey in a peach tree, each amidst dense flowering branches including peony, prunus and peach blossom, below two flower-head handles suspending loose rings on a band of stylized animal scrolls at the shoulder and stiff leaves at the flaring neck and above galloping horses at the spreading foot, pitting and some infill
15in. (38cm.) high