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A LARGE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE TRIPOD BOWLMid Ming Dynasty, the mounts Qianlong Robustly cast with deep curving walls enamelled around the exterior with large lotus heads issuing from meandering scrolls, the interior similarly decorated but the well with two fish leaping from swirling waves around a lotus cluster, the vessel raised on three elephant-head legs with long tusks and decorated with beaded jewellery. 28.2cm (11 1/8in) diam.Footnotes明中期 銅胎掐絲琺瑯纏枝蓮紋盌 配鑲清乾隆鎏金象足 Provenance: a European private collection 來源：歐洲私人收藏 Compare with a very similar cloisonné enamel bowl with similar lotus blossoms with three petals beneath the central section, 15th/16th century, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, illustrated by B.Quette, Cloisonné: Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties, New York, Paris, New Haven and London, 2011, pp.70 and 238, fig.4.12 and no.27. See also a cloisonné enamel dish, with a very similar design of fish in the well, second half 15th century, illustrated by H.Brinker and A.Lutz, Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry Collection, New York and London, 1989, no.33. The elephant mounts are a direct continuation from the early Ming dynasty; see for example an incense burner with elephant feet, early Ming dynasty, in the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum, Enamels 1, Cloisonné in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, Beijing, 2011, p.103, pl.34. However, the mounts were added during the Qianlong reign.