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A LARGE CLOISONNE ENAMEL YENYEN VASE
MING DYNASTY, SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY
Decorated with an allover design of lotus scroll, with a band of white petal lappets at the foot rim, a similar band in green at the base of the neck and repeated again in a lappet-cast bronze band where the neck meets the shoulder above a foliate-decorated, blue lambrequin border interrupted by three gilt-bronze lion masks suspending loose rings, all below a pair of large gilt-bronze dragon-form handles and the widely flared mouth rim, some losses and restoration--41 3/4 in. (106cm.) high
MING DYNASTY, SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY
Decorated with an allover design of lotus scroll, with a band of white petal lappets at the foot rim, a similar band in green at the base of the neck and repeated again in a lappet-cast bronze band where the neck meets the shoulder above a foliate-decorated, blue lambrequin border interrupted by three gilt-bronze lion masks suspending loose rings, all below a pair of large gilt-bronze dragon-form handles and the widely flared mouth rim, some losses and restoration--41 3/4 in. (106cm.) high