WINTER EXHIBITION 2008 - Roger Keverne

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60 A cloisonné enamel and gilt-bronze incense burner and cover 17th century Height: 4D in, 10.8 cm the hemispherical censer is supported on three gilt-bronze legs, cast and chased in the form of phoenixes, and has an everted gilt-bronze rim set with two loop handles. The vessel is decorated in coloured enamels on a greenish-turquoise ground with three archaistic monster masks, one centred over each leg, and with scrolling lotus to the base. The gilt-bronze cover is pierced with a design of two phoenixes against scrolling and is surmounted by a globular knop. For related censers, see Getz, Catalogue of the Avery Collection of Ancient Chinese Cloisonnés, no. 8; Lin, Chinese Incense Burners: Collection of Steven Hung & Lindy Chern, no. 14, p. 46; and Metalbodied Enamel Ware: The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, no. 44, p. 45.
61 ROGER KEVERNE <strong>WINTER</strong> <strong>2008</strong> 79 An unusual cloisonné enamel box and cover Kangxi period Diameter: 2N in, 7.1 cm with eight bracket lobes, straight sides and a very slightly domed cover. The box is decorated in dark green, yellow, tomatored, lapis-blue and white enamels on a turquoise ground with clouds and the Eight Trigrams about a central yin–yang symbol to the cover, and with clouds to the sides. The rims, interior and base are gilt. Formerly in a European private collection. Illustrated: Spink & Son, The Minor Arts of China, London, 1983, no. 74. An identical box in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Zhongguo Meishu Fenlei Quanji: Zhongguo Jinyin Boli Falangqi Quanji, Vol. 5, no. 178, p. 150. Note also a mid-sixteenth century box, with a yin–yang symbol, in the Reid collection and illustrated in Till and Swart, Antique Chinese Cloisonné, no. 21. 62 An unusual bronze and cloisonné enamel mirror 18th century Height: 4D in, 10.8 cm of rectangular form and decorated in coloured enamels on a turquoise ground with two archaistic monster masks and scrolling about a plain domed bronze knop. The reflective side is now a mellow coffeebrown tone. Cloisonné enamel mirrors are rare, but for a circular example in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, see Chen, Enamel Ware in the Ming and Ch’ing Dynasties, no. 51, p. 129.
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