LATE MING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY

A similar vase of comparable size (20 7/8 in.), with similar decoration on the body and lower neck, and similar narrow decorative bands, in the Les Arts Decoratifs-musée des Arts Decoratifs, is illustrated by Bèatrice Quette (ed.) in Cloisonné: Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, Bard Graduate Center, New York, 2011, p. 259, no. 69, where it is dated Kangxi. See, also, the two similar vases, dated second half sixteenth century, illustrated by H. Brinker and A. Lutz in Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry Collection, The Asia Society Galleries, New York, 1989, nos. 115 and 118, the first of smaller size (38.7 cm.) with similar decorative bands on the body, foot and upper neck, the second with similar decoration on the body and lower neck, and of similar height (55 cm.). The shape of all of these vases is based on bronze vessels of Han dynasty date.