GRAND VASE EN EMAUX CLOISONNES, FANGGU

CHINE, XVIIEME SIECLE

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GRAND VASE EN EMAUX CLOISONNES, FANGGU
CHINE, XVIIEME SIECLE
The vase is exquisitely enamelled in bright tones with taotie masks on the drum-shaped mid-section, a band of upright archaistic chilong on the neck and upright green-ground cicada blades at the corners of the trumpet mouth enclosing blue chilong motifs, repeated on the spreading foot with pendent blades containing stylised phoenix, the exterior applied with vertical notched flanges, and the inner mouthrim encircled by a lotus scroll.
18 ¼ in. (46.4 cm.) high

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A LARGE CLOISONNE ENAMEL VASE, FANGGU
CHINA, 17TH CENTURY

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Lot Essay

For similar examples of cloisonne gu with taotie masks, see Helmut Brinker and Albert Lutz, Chinesisches Cloisonne Die Sammlung Pierre Uldry, Museum Rietberg, Zürich, 1985, no. 178 and 212 ; Palace Museum, Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Enamels, Vol. 2, no 36, pp. 62-63.

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