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Cloisonné enamel wares in the Forbidden City
Updated: 2007-08-06 09:34
(chinaculture.org)
5. Wire inlayed cloisonné enamel butter tea-pot
Specification: 66 centimeters in height
This butter tea-pot of the royal family, weighing more than 20 kilograms, is just for decorative purposes.
6. Wire inlayed cloisonné enamel Jue
Specification: 14.5 centimeters in height, and 17.9 centimeters in diameter
Jue, the earliest wine vessel with three legs and one loop handle and the earliest bronze ritual vessels, is a guide for the modern pot with tray. The handle is dragon shape, three legs up in the inserted central tray. It is blue, decorated with the painting landscapes, flowers and butterfly.Its unique style is marked by the ancient Chinese people's ingenuity.
7. Wire inlayed cloisonné enamel Occidental lidded pot
Specification: 9.5 centimeters in height, 9.3 centimeters in diameter.
With delicate curves, this pot is decorated with sketches of a Western house, people, animals, and a mother with her son. Made in the middle Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), the small lidded pot is both ornamental and practical.
8. Wire inlayed cloisonné enamel phoenix Dou
Specification: 10.1 centimeters in height, 7.1 centimeters in diameter.
A Dou is a bronze food vessel of the Zhou Dynasty (1,100-256 BC). This one, made in the middle Qing Dynasty, is an imitation of the ancient work. With a ring pattern, the enameled Dou has a pair of ear-like handles, which represent two phoenix heads. Taken off, its lid could be used as a plate.
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