19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL QUADRILOBED JARDINIÈRES WITH FRENCH MOUNTS
19TH CENTURY
Each is decorated around the lobed sides with an allover design of butterflies in flight amidst morning glory vine below a ruyi border and a band of multicolored key fret on the neck. The metal mounts include out-curved handles, a rim of linked ruyi heads, and a stand with an openwork, foliate scroll apron raised on four foliate scroll supports.
20 in. (51 cm.) wide across handles

Provenance

Acquired in Paris, 1997.

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Lot Essay

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.

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