CHINE, DYNASTIE MING, LA BASE XVEME SIECLE, LE VASE XVIEME SIECLE

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RARE VASE EN BRONZE DORE ET EMAUX CLOISONNES
CHINE, DYNASTIE MING, LA BASE XVEME SIECLE, LE VASE XVIEME SIECLE
Le pavillon du vase formé de la partie supérieure d'un vase yenyen du XVIème siècle, agrémentée de deux anses en forme de chilong en émaux champlevés de style archaïsant, à registre central finement décoré de fleurs de lotus et rinceaux, encadré d'une frise de grands ruyi pourpres rehaussés de fleurs et d'une guirlande de feuilles de bananiers, la base du vase tripode, du XVème siècle, à décor de lotus multicolores sur fond turquoise, les trois pieds recourbés en forme de feuilles
Hauteur: 27 cm. (10 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Sotheby's London, 18 May 1971, lot 42.
Sotheby's London, 29 October 1982, lot 38.
Bluett & Sons Ltd., London.

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A RARE GILT-BRONZE AND CLOISONNE ENAMEL VASE
CHINA, MING DYNASTY, THE PLINTH 15TH CENTURY, THE VASE EARLY 16TH CENTURY

Lot Essay

This interesting vase is made with the upper trumpet part of a yenyen vase from the beginning of the 16th century.
A complete example of this vase from the Qing Court Collection is in the Palace Museum, Beijing, and illustrated twice, in The Selected Handicrafts from the Collections of The Palace Museum, Beijing 1974, pl.49; and in Metal-bodied Enamel Ware - The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong 2002, pl.1 (see fig.1).
The treatment of the lotus scrolls and the palette of the plinth are both typical of the early 15th century cloisonnés and can be compared to the censer illustrated in Sir Harry Garner, Chinese and Japanese Cloisonné Enamels, London 1962, pl. 14.

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