Provenance:
– A private Japanese collection
– A private American collection
The rounded body of this elegantly shaped cloisonné enamel vase is finely decorated with pink, purple, yellow and blue flowers issuing from bright green foliage, all on a turquoise ground. The slender neck decorated with lotus flowers ringed by a gilt band, terminating in a bulbous mouth. The neck flanked by two handles in the shape of auspicious ‘ruyi’ sceptres.
Cloisonné enamel pieces of this shape and quality are extremely rare. Compare a vase sold at Christie’s Paris, 14 December 2011, lot247. A related example, dated 18th century, but of ovoid form and enamelled with floral sprays, previously from the collection of Baroness Salomon de Rothschild and now in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, is illustrated by B. Quette, ’Cloisonné: Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties’, New York, 2011, p.164, fig.8.18. See also another moon flask, enamelled with peony blossoms, first half 18th century, but of more flattened form and with dragon shaped handles, illustrated by H. Brinker and A. Lutz, ’Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry Collection’, New York, 1989, pl.234.
A rare cloisonne enamel garlic-head twin-handled vase (Qianlong period, 1736-1795)
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清 乾隆 1736-1795 铜胎掐丝珐琅如意耳蒜头瓶
Dimensions: 24cm high
Provenance:
– A private Japanese collection
– A private American collection
The rounded body of this elegantly shaped cloisonné enamel vase is finely decorated with pink, purple, yellow and blue flowers issuing from bright green foliage, all on a turquoise ground. The slender neck decorated with lotus flowers ringed by a gilt band, terminating in a bulbous mouth. The neck flanked by two handles in the shape of auspicious ‘ruyi’ sceptres.
Cloisonné enamel pieces of this shape and quality are extremely rare. Compare a vase sold at Christie’s Paris, 14 December 2011, lot247. A related example, dated 18th century, but of ovoid form and enamelled with floral sprays, previously from the collection of Baroness Salomon de Rothschild and now in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, is illustrated by B. Quette, ’Cloisonné: Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties’, New York, 2011, p.164, fig.8.18. See also another moon flask, enamelled with peony blossoms, first half 18th century, but of more flattened form and with dragon shaped handles, illustrated by H. Brinker and A. Lutz, ’Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry Collection’, New York, 1989, pl.234.
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