A LARGE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE VASE AND COVER, HU MING DYNASTY, WANLI PERIOD of archaic bronze form, the pear-shaped body rising from a high splayed foot to a tall waisted neck, brightly decorated around the exterior with three broad leafy scrolling lotus bands reserved on a turquoise ground and divided by narrow floral scroll bands within raised gilt lines, the shoulder set with three recumbent gilt-bronze rams and the neck and foot with a row of gilt-bronze whorl bosses, the stepped domed cover surmounted by three archaistic gilt-bronze dragon flanges Quantity: 2 67 cm., 26 3/8 in.
A LARGE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE VASE AND COVER, HU MING DYNASTY, WANLI PERIOD of archaic bronze form, the pear-shaped body rising from a high splayed foot to a tall waisted neck, brightly decorated around the exterior with three broad leafy scrolling lotus bands reserved on a turquoise ground and divided by narrow floral scroll bands within raised gilt lines, the shoulder set with three recumbent gilt-bronze rams and the neck and foot with a row of gilt-bronze whorl bosses, the stepped domed cover surmounted by three archaistic gilt-bronze dragon flanges Quantity: 2 67 cm., 26 3/8 in.
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