Pair Chinese 19th C. Qing Dynasty, Cloisonne Multi-Cartouche Vases from Museum

Product Description

A Gorgeous Pair of Antique Chinese 19th Century, Qing Dynasty, Cloisonne Multi-Cartouche Blue Ground Gu Form Vases. These vases feature a surface detailed with birds, plants, and clouds inhabiting an abstracted landscape. Organized into several different registers, the focal point of the vases centers around a white panel showing two aviary scenes. Chickens, roosters, songbirds, and ravens gather within the environment. Outside the border of the white panel is an intricate floral pattern that covers the rest of the body of the vase. The pattern is royal blue, pastel yellow, brick red, sea foam, and leaf green. The base and spout of the vase are gilded to contrast the rich blue tone of the enamel. Cloisonne pieces of this size, quality, condition and pattern are extremely rare to find. These vases were deaccessioned from the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, prior to 2005; Property of the Mobile Museum of Art, sold to benefit their collections, care , and acquisitions fund. Exh.: Mobile Museum of Art, 2005-2016 and have inventory numbers on the inside of the upper neck.
China, Circa: 1800’s

Height: 18.25 in (46.36 cm)
Diameter: 7 in (17.78 cm)