A FINE AND RARE CLOISONNE ENAMEL BOTTLE VASE

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A FINE AND RARE CLOISONNE ENAMEL BOTTLE VASE
LATE MING/EARLY QING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY

The pear-shaped vase well decorated with a dense pattern of red, blue, yellow, mauve and white lotus flowers on scrolling vines against a turquoise ground, interrupted by a wide green and teal wave band set between bowstring borders on the tall, slender neck flanked by a pair of gilt-metal dragon handles, each clutching a pearl in one paw, with blue and white petals encircling above the foot, and a ruyi band around the mouth rim
11 in. (28 cm.) high, box

Provenance

Edward T. Chow

Lot Essay

Previously sold in these Rooms, 30 October 1994, lot 369.

Compare the present lot with a slightly smaller 16th/17th century vase of similar proportions but lacking the dragon handles, included in the Phoenix Art Museum exhibition, Chinese Cloisonné: The Clague Collection, 1980, Catalogue pl. 20. Another closely related piece in the Victoria and Albert Museum is illustrated by B. W. Robinson, Chinese Cloisonné Enamels, London, 1972, pl. 5.

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