Imperial Cloisonné & Jade: Chinese Art from The Brooklyn Museum
Imperial Cloisonné & Jade: Chinese Art from The Brooklyn Museum
Property from the Brooklyn Museum, sold to support museum collections
A rare cloisonné enamel 'taotie' hu-form vase, Late Ming dynasty | 明末 銅胎掐絲琺瑯饕餮紋鋪首耳壺
Auction Closed
March 17, 03:03 PM GMT
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A rare cloisonné enamel 'taotie' hu-form vase
Late Ming dynasty
明末 銅胎掐絲琺瑯饕餮紋鋪首耳壺
the voluminous pear-shaped body resting on a tall splayed foot, sweeping to a waisted neck with gently flaring mouth, applied with a pair of enameled mythical beast-mask-handles suspending loose rings with scroll cloisons, the vessel with a wide band of taotie surrounded by registers of precious objects, archaistic scroll brackets, meandering lotus scroll, and pendent lappets, all enameled in vibrant turquoise, cobalt blue, yellow, red, green, and white
Height 13 ⅝ in., 34.5 cm
Collection of Samuel P. Avery, Jr. (1847-1920).
Gifted to the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, in 1909 (acc. no. 09.471).
來源
Samuel P. Avery, Jr. (1847-1920) 收藏
1909年贈予布魯克林博物館，布魯克林 (館藏編號09.471)
John Getz, Catalogue of the Avery Collection of Ancient Chinese Cloisonnés, New York, 1912, pl. 48.
出版
John Getz，《Catalogue of the Avery Collection of Ancient Chinese Cloisonnés》，紐約，1912年，圖版48
The present vessel is rare for its elegant archaistic design, as seen in the main band of taotie decoration encircling the body. Such archaism would become highly popular in later 18th century cloisonné and other works of art.
Few comparable late Ming examples are recorded. For two fanghu examples with more geometric taotie and stylized designs, see one sold in our London rooms, 29th October 1982, lot 32, and another sold at Christie's London, 11th November 2010, lot 1144. Another fanghu, featuring vertical raised flanges along its sides, sold in our Paris rooms, 9th June 2010, lot 176.