A large and rare cloisonné enamel 'lotus and fish' bowl


16th century The deep bowl with gently rounded sides rising from a splayed foot to a flared rim, brilliantly enamelled on a turquoise ground to the interior with a central roundel depicting two large fish swimming in opposite directions with two further smaller fish, the well with large blossoming lotus picked out in blue, red, white and yellow and interspersed amidst leafy tendrils, the exterior similary decorated, the splayed foot with a lappet band and the base with a single lotus bloom. 28cm (11in) diam.
|十六世紀 銅胎掐絲琺瑯番蓮魚藻紋盌Provenance: Christie's London, 9 November 2010, lot 234A distinguished European private collection來源： 2010年11月9日於倫敦佳士得拍賣，拍品234號顯貴歐洲私人收藏Compare with a similar cloisonné bowl, late Ming dynasty, decorated with a pair of swimming fish to the well and blossoming lotus interspersed amidst the Eight Buddhist Emblems, illustrated in the Compendium of Collection in the Palace Museum: Enamels 1, Beijing, 2011, pl.161.