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A VERY RARE CLOISONNÉ-ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE WINE EWER AND COVER Jiajing incised six-character mark and of the period (2) image 1
A VERY RARE CLOISONNÉ-ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE WINE EWER AND COVER Jiajing incised six-character mark and of the period (2) image 2
A VERY RARE CLOISONNÉ-ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE WINE EWER AND COVER Jiajing incised six-character mark and of the period (2) image 3
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Lot 322*

A VERY RARE CLOISONNÉ-ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE WINE EWER AND COVER
Jiajing incised six-character mark and of the period

2 November 2023, 15:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A VERY RARE CLOISONNÉ-ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE WINE EWER AND COVER

Jiajing incised six-character mark and of the period
The oviform tall slender body enamelled on one side with a blue-bodied flying crested mythical phoenix with yellow-tipped wing feathers, the other side with a similar yellow phoenix with blue wing tips, all on a dark turquoise ground enriched with densely scrolling simple flower heads on a gilt meander, the dome cover with eight brick-red lappets radiating from the bud finial. 17cm (6 3/4in) wide. (2).

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明嘉靖 掐絲琺瑯鳳紋執壺帶蓋
「大明嘉靖年製」刻款

Provenance: a Swiss private collection, and thence by descent

來源:瑞士私人收藏,並由後人保存迄今

Jiajing mark and period cloisonné ewers and covers are extremely rare. See a cloisonné-enamel bowl, however, decorated with a similar pair of phoenix and scrolling lotus, with similar Jiajing incised six-character mark and period, illustrated by H.Brinker and A.Lutz, Chinesisches Cloisonné: Die Sammlung Pierre Uldry, Zurich, 1984, no.70. See also a cloisonné-enamel ewer and cover, 16th century, but decorated with lions, illustrated in Ibid., no.98.

Compare with a related cloisonné-enamel and gilt-bronze 'Buddhist lions' ewer, 16th century, which was sold at Bonhams London, 12 May 2022, lot 100.

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