Property from the MARY C. BELIN TRUST
THREE PAINTED ENAMEL VESSELS
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THREE PAINTED ENAMEL VESSELS
17TH/18TH CENTURY
One a small stem cup delicately painted on the exterior with a grapevine that continues into the interior; one a bowl and cover, both painted on the exterior with black and pink dragons pursuing a flaming pearl amidst blue clouds reserved on a lemon-yellow ground within foliate borders; the third also a bowl and cover, the exterior of the bowl decorated with a gathering of scholars with their attendants in a landscape, the cover decorated with butterflies in a band of composite foliate scroll, the interiors covered in sky-blue enamel painted with fish in the bottom of the bowl and with a landscape roundel inside the cover, chips to all
Stemcup 2½in. (6.4cm.) high; bowls 4 7/8 and 4½in. (12.4 and 11.3cm.) diam. (3)
17TH/18TH CENTURY
One a small stem cup delicately painted on the exterior with a grapevine that continues into the interior; one a bowl and cover, both painted on the exterior with black and pink dragons pursuing a flaming pearl amidst blue clouds reserved on a lemon-yellow ground within foliate borders; the third also a bowl and cover, the exterior of the bowl decorated with a gathering of scholars with their attendants in a landscape, the cover decorated with butterflies in a band of composite foliate scroll, the interiors covered in sky-blue enamel painted with fish in the bottom of the bowl and with a landscape roundel inside the cover, chips to all
Stemcup 2½in. (6.4cm.) high; bowls 4 7/8 and 4½in. (12.4 and 11.3cm.) diam. (3)
Further details
See illustration of two