16TH CENTURY

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A RARE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL VASE, FANGHU
16TH CENTURY
In the shape of an archaic bronze prototype with flanges on the corners, enamelled on the sides with a variety of animals including a parrot, deer, a monkey and peacocks, inhabiting a forest of flowering trees and pine, below a band of kuilong around the shoulder and a band of stiff leaves around the neck, the foot with horses above waves
15½ in. (39.5 cm.) high, Japanese wood box

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Lot Essay

For a similar example see, Helmut Brinker and Albert Lutz, Chinesisches Cloisonne Die Sammlung Pierre Uldry, Museum Rietberg, Zürich, 1985, pl. 157., also published in Judith Moorhouse, Collecting Oriental Antiques, London, New York, Sydney, Toronto, 1976, pl. 98. An example can also be seen in The National Palace Museum, Taiwan, Enamel Ware in the Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties, 1999, no. 22; and in Sir Harry Garner, Chinese and Japanese Cloisonne Enamels, London, 1970, pl. 53.

A similar example was also sold in Sothebys New York, 30 March 2006, lot 167.

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