A LARGE CLOISONNE ENAMEL ORMOLU-MOUNTED HU-FORM VASE

LATE 18TH/19TH CENTURY

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A LARGE CLOISONNE ENAMEL ORMOLU-MOUNTED HU-FORM VASE
LATE 18TH/19TH CENTURY
The pear-shaped body decorated with four roundels of birds and insects amongst flowers, branches and rockwork interspersed with bats and pendent chimes, all reserved on a wan diaper ground between borders of blossoms around the shoulder and stylized key-fret and ruyi-head scroll around the foot, the neck with oval-shaped cartouches with an assortment of scholars' objects between twin lotus blossoms of alternating color and attached gilt-bronze chi dragon handles, the whole set on an ormolu base supported by four elephant heads, the rim with a foliate edge containing small tripartite blossoms
27 in. (68.6 cm.) high

Lot Essay

A pair of even larger vases (78 cm. high) of slightly different hu shape similarly decorated around the sides with four large circular medallions, enclosing depictions of the Flowers of the Four Seasons, and with a pair of gilt-metal dragon handles, is illustrated by H. Brinker and A. Lutz, Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry Collection, The Asia Society Galleries, New York, 1989, no. 281.

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