19TH CENTURY

A cloisonné enamel jardinière of the same shape, but differently decorated, with a similar bronze, openwork rim of linked ruyi heads, as well as bronze dragon handles, raised on a tall, faux bamboo bronze tripod stand signed 'F. Barbedienne', is illustrated by Claudia Brown in Chinese Cloisonné: The Clague Collection, Phoenix Art Museum, 1980, pp. 102-3, pl. 44. The jardinière is dated second quarter, 18th century, and the stand, which is signed "F. Barbedienne", is dated ca. 1860-70. Ferdinand Barbedienne (1810-1892), who had an important bronze foundry in France, is known to have seriously studied Chinese and Japanese metalwork and enameling.