A MAGNIFICENT AND MASSIVE IMPERIAL CLOISONNE ENAMEL ‘TAOTIE’ HU-FORM VASE YONGZHENG-QIANLONG PERIOD (1722-1795) The pear-shaped vase is superbly cast on both sides of the body with a powerful taotie mask in relief featuring scroll-shaped eyebrows, eyes detailed with concentric circles, and gilt-bronze teeth in relief against a diaper ground of wan emblems and florettes enclosed within octagonal panels, below a raised gilt-bronze band cast with pairs of confronted dragons, and the neck decorated with a band of plantain-shaped panels each enclosing a pair of confronted phoenix, flanked by a pair of loop handles decorated with taotie masks. The waisted foot is further decorated with four ferocious mythical-beast masks interspersed by four mythical beasts shown in profile. 25 3/8 in. (64.7 cm.) high Provenance George Walter Vincent Smith (1832-1923), Springfield, Massachusetts, acquired prior to 1910
A MAGNIFICENT AND MASSIVE IMPERIAL CLOISONNE ENAMEL ‘TAOTIE’ HU-FORM VASE YONGZHENG-QIANLONG PERIOD (1722-1795) The pear-shaped vase is superbly cast on both sides of the body with a powerful taotie mask in relief featuring scroll-shaped eyebrows, eyes detailed with concentric circles, and gilt-bronze teeth in relief against a diaper ground of wan emblems and florettes enclosed within octagonal panels, below a raised gilt-bronze band cast with pairs of confronted dragons, and the neck decorated with a band of plantain-shaped panels each enclosing a pair of confronted phoenix, flanked by a pair of loop handles decorated with taotie masks. The waisted foot is further decorated with four ferocious mythical-beast masks interspersed by four mythical beasts shown in profile. 25 3/8 in. (64.7 cm.) high Provenance George Walter Vincent Smith (1832-1923), Springfield, Massachusetts, acquired prior to 1910
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