A FINE AND RARE CLOISONNE ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE DUCK VESSEL
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A FINE AND RARE CLOISONNE ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE DUCK VESSEL

18TH CENTURY

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A FINE AND RARE CLOISONNE ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE DUCK VESSEL
18th century
Modelled as an archaistic duck standing with its head turned to the left, decorated with a taotie on its breast archaistic leiwen patterns and feathers, supporting on its back a gu vase decorated with rocks, peonies and archaistic pattern
13¾ in. (35 cm.) high
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拍品專文

Compare a similar cloisonné enamel vessel in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, in Zhongguo Meishu Quanji, Arts and Crafts, vol. 10, Gold, Silver, Glass and Enamels, no. 338.

For a prototype of this form see the Song dynasty archaistic inlaid bronze bird with a vase on its back in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, illustrated by R. S. Jenyns and W. Watson in Chinese Art, The Minor Arts, Fribourg, 1963, pp. 104-5, no. 42.

Compare also a less naturalistic Qianlong cloisonné example in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Enamel Ware in the Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties, Taipei, 1999, no. 44

The popularity of this theme is further evidenced by a porcelain example in the Palace Museum, on which the bird is a chicken rather than a duck, illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Hong Kong, 1989, no. 90.