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FINE PAIR OF CLOISONNE JARDINIERES, MING DYNASTY, the gilt octagonal sides with applied panels of lotus, scrolling tendrils and stylised motifs, against a ground engraved throughout with further scrolling lotus decoration, on four bracket feet, with liners, 25cm wide FOOTNOTE: For related examples, see Beurdeley, The Chinese Collector through the Centuries: From the Han to the 20th Century, fig. 90, p. 167; Cultural Relics Bureau of Chengde, The Qing Emperors and the Chengde Mountain Resort, p. 55; Palace Museum, Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Enamels, Vol. 4, no. 16, p. 46; Samoyault-Verlet et al, Le Musee chinois de /'imperatrice Eugenie, fig. 17, pp. 24-5, in the Empress's Chinese Museum at Fontainebleau; and Shenyang Imperial Palace Museum, The Prime Cultural Relics Collected by Shenyang Imperial Palace Museum: The Enamel Volume, no. 8, p. 77. Note also a pair of similar quatrefoil-section jardinières in Roger Keverne's Winter 2011 catalogue, no. 57, pp. 80-1.