A RARE LARGE CLOISONNE ENAMEL TRIPOD BASIN

THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

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A RARE LARGE CLOISONNE ENAMEL TRIPOD BASIN
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

The centre of the charger enamelled with a white elephant richly caparisoned with beaded tassels, draped with a colourful saddlecloth and supporting an archaistic vase containing Buddhist jewels, all amidst multi-coloured cloud-scrolls scattered with the Eight Buddhist Emblems, the cavetto decorated with chilong scrolls, the exterior and base enamelled with stylised lotus scrolls encircling the central double-vajra medallion, set with a pair of gilt-bronze chilong handles and raised on three splayed feet cast with cloud scrolls
19 in. (48.3 cm.) across the handles

Lot Essay

A tripod basin of identical design is illustrated by H. Brinker and A. Lutz, Chinese Cloisonne from the Pierre Uldry Collection, Zurich, 1989, pl. 210; and another was sold at Sotheby's New York, 23 March 2004, lot 527.

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