A cloisonné enamel vase, hu
17th century
The form inspired by Han Dynasty vessels, set with a pair of taotie-mask loose-ring handles, decorated on the central register with two quatrelobed cartouches enclosing a crane and another bird in a fenced garden amidst rockwork, variously enamelled with prunus and pomegranate, the shoulders and neck with butterflies amidst scattered flower heads framed by narrow borders with a composite floral scroll reserved on green ground, all reserved on a cracked-ice turquoise ground.
38.1cm (15in) high
The form inspired by Han Dynasty vessels, set with a pair of taotie-mask loose-ring handles, decorated on the central register with two quatrelobed cartouches enclosing a crane and another bird in a fenced garden amidst rockwork, variously enamelled with prunus and pomegranate, the shoulders and neck with butterflies amidst scattered flower heads framed by narrow borders with a composite floral scroll reserved on green ground, all reserved on a cracked-ice turquoise ground.
38.1cm (15in) high
Sold for
£8,160
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Provenance: an English private collection; according to the family, probably acquired in the late 19th/early 20th century, and thence by descent
Category: Asian Art / Chinese Works of Art
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