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• Auction House:
  Sotheby's Australia
• Sale Name:
  Fine Asian, Australian & European Arts & Design
• Sale Date:
  27 Oct 2015 ~ 6pm
• Lot #:
  51
• Lot Description:
  A large cloisonne enamel yenyen vase, late Ming/early Qing dynasty, 17th century
  the sides decorated with scrolling stems of lotus blooms, interrupted around the shoulders with a 'ruyi'-shaped collar of different flowers including lotus, peony, chrysanthemum and magnolia, and extending over the trumpet shaped neck and interior of the wide flared mouth, the base of the neck with a frieze of florettes above a gilt band of archaistic dragons and a border of radiating petals, the shoulders applied with three gilt bronze phoenix suspending loose rings, and the neck flanked by a pair of large dragon-form handles, the splayed base encircled with pendent lappets, the circular bronze stand supported on three winged 'bixie', each crouched with head raised biting the rim, the underside with a six-character Jingtai mark in a rectangle encircled with two dragons pursuing a flaming pearl
  70 cm high
• Estimate:
  A$50,000 - 70,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Oriental

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