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A RARE CLOISONNE ENAMEL 'SQUIRREL AND GRAPE' VASE, HU
A RARE CLOISONNE ENAMEL 'SQUIRREL AND GRAPE' VASE, HU
A RARE CLOISONNE ENAMEL 'SQUIRREL AND GRAPE' VASE, HU
A RARE CLOISONNE ENAMEL 'SQUIRREL AND GRAPE' VASE, HU
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A RARE CLOISONNE ENAMEL 'SQUIRREL AND GRAPE' VASE, HU

KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

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A RARE CLOISONNE ENAMEL 'SQUIRREL AND GRAPE' VASE, HU
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The baluster body of the pear-shaped vase is divided into four registers by red and blue line borders, with each register depicting playful squirrels clambering amidst grapevines bearing clusters of green and purple grapes on a turquoise ground. The shoulder is applied with a pair of taotie mask handles suspending loose rings decorated with classic scrolls, all against a dark blue ground. The enamelled grapevine design continues on to the base.
14 1/4 in. (36 cm.) high, box
来源
A & J Speelman, 2005
Sold at Christie's New York, 19 March 2009, lot 612
出版
Reverence and Perfection: Magnificent Imperial Cloisonné Enamels from a Private European Collection, Hong Kong, 2013, no. 15

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Mathilde Courteault (Paris)
Mathilde Courteault (Paris)

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The motif of squirrels with trailing grape vines is considered auspicious as it may represent a wish for progeny and ceaseless generations of sons and grandsons. Compare to a cloisonné enamel hu vase, inscribed with a Jingtai mark but dated to the second half of the 16th century, decorated with a grape vine band around the neck and two pairs of dragons to the body, illustrated by H. Brinker and A. Lutz, Chinese Cloisonné, The Pierre Uldry Collection, 1989, no. 118.

A slightly larger example (42.2 cm. high) of almost identical shape and decoration was sold at Christie's New York, 29 March 2006, lot 296.

This animated theme is also seen on contemporaneous wares of different media, such as a Kangxi-marked double-gourd vase painted in cobalt blue with squirrels and grape vines in the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (III), The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2000, no. 20; a parcel-gilt bronze oval seal box, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 28 November 2012, lot 2250; and a rhinoceros horn libation cup, also carved with grapes and squirrels, sold at Christie's London, 8 November 2011, lot 34.