18TH CENTURY

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AN UNUSUAL CLOISONNE ENAMEL POMEGRANATE-FORM VASE
18TH CENTURY
The full, rounded body decorated around the sides and across the slightly concave base with fruiting and flowering pomegranate branches below a band of lotus sprays on the neck which continues on the underside of the six out-turned sepals that form the mouth rim
8 in. (20.3 cm.) high

Lot Essay

This appears to be a very rare form in cloisonné enamel, and is a fairly rare form in any other medium. In porcelain it can be seen in a small vase, Yongzheng mark and period, covered with a ru-type glaze, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, and illustrated in Gugong Wenwu Jinghua Baipingzhan, Taipei, 1997, p. 46, no. 21.

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