Lot 340
A Cloisonné Ming-Style ‘Lotus’ Charger, Jingtai Mark, 19th Century
Lot 340 Details
A Cloisonné Ming-Style ‘Lotus’ Charger, Jingtai Mark, 19th Century
清十九世紀 明式 掐絲琺瑯纏枝蓮大盤
The interior and exterior decorated with a dense design of scrolling lotus in red, yellow, white, pink, purple and blue enamel on a turquoise ground, the base with Jingtai mark 大明景泰
diameter 13.8" — 35 cm.
Estimate $800-$1,600
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Provenance:
Acquired from an antique shop during the 1960s, Tetbury, England, thence by descent within the family
Literature:
An archaistic censer with the identical lotus design and mark was documented in ‘Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry Collection’, plates 349 and 349a, The Asia Society Galleries, New York, 1989
相同大明景泰款一例現庋藏於Pierre Uldry珍藏,並著錄於1989年出版圖錄
Note:
A very similar example sold at Sotheby’s London, November 10, 2010, lot 247