IMPORTANT BOL EN BRONZE ET EMAUX CLOISONNES
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IMPORTANT BOL EN BRONZE ET EMAUX CLOISONNES

CHINE, DYNASTIE MING, XVIEME SIECLE

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IMPORTANT BOL EN BRONZE ET EMAUX CLOISONNES
CHINE, DYNASTIE MING, XVIEME SIECLE
Reposant sur un petit pied orné de marguerites, le bol de forme tulipée, l'extérieur à décor de larges rinceaux feuillagés et lotus, la partie inférieure rehaussée d'une frise de pétales, l'intérieur orné d'un médaillon central représentant deux canards mandarins couchés sur la berge d'une rivière, le pourtour rehaussé de tiges feuillagées desquelles pendent des grappes de raisins
Hauteur: 14,5 cm. (5¾ in.), Diamètre: 27,7 cm. (10 7/8 in.)
Provenance
Christie's London, 16-17 April 1985, lot 348.
Special notice
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Further details
AN IMPORTANT BRONZE AND CLOISONNE ENAMEL BOWL
CHINA, MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY

Lot Essay

Such bowl with combined patterns of mandarin ducks and bunches of grapes are very rare. Although these two motifs are recurrent on 16th century cloisonné wares, no other bowl like this one appears to be published. For a similar pattern with bunches of grapes, see a tripod censer illustrated in H. Brinker and A. Lutz, Chinesisches Cloisonné - Die Sammlung Pierre Uldry, Museum Rietberg, Zurich 1985, pl.35. The central medallion of the current bowl with mandarin ducks is also very close from 16th century dishes illustrated in H. Brinker and A. Lutz, Op. Cit., pl.48.
See also the dish offered in this sale, lot 6.

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