A RARE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL WINE EWER AND COVER IN PERSIAN STYLE

Estimated Value:

1.500 € - 2.500 €

Result:

971 € incl. Premium and VAT

Description:

China, Ming dynasty, ca. 16th c.
H. 28,3 cm
Each side of the vessel is decorated with a panel depicting a mythical beast, set against a ground of stylised lotus.
Collection Tefs, Wiesbaden, assembled in Germany between 1955 and 1987, sold at Nagel, 10.11.2001, Lot 2484
For a very similar cloisonne ewer from the collection of the Kubosô Memorial Museum of Art, Izumi, see Zôtei Zôhin senshû, 1990, no. 61, p. 64. For another similar shaped cloisonné enamel ewer dated to the 16th c. see Sotheby’s Paris, 11.6.2019, lot 78. See also the Cloisonné ewer preserved in the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Gift of Samuel P. Avery, 09.574a-b. See also the cloisonné ewer sold at Christie’s London, 12.5.2015, lot 506 very similar in style in decoration - Knob of the cover and the base plate later, partly chipped, small filled losses to enamel

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