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Subject:End of Qing, 1920s
Posted By: beadiste Tue, Mar 20, 2018
Very attractive pieces. This particular pattern has been an ongoing mystery to me. It appears on pieces that can be dated to 1908, when Teddy Roosevelt's "Great White Fleet" visited China. CiXi died at the end of that year.
The pattern appears often in subsequent decades - such as that Feng Yuxian bowl described in a blog post, celebrating Christmas in "the 11th year of the Chinese Republic"
http://www.beadiste.com/2015/01/puzzling-evidence-chinese-cloisonne.html
It seems to have been a favorite for small bottles, smoking sets, shallow bowls.
And I have a small bowl that I'm pretty sure dates to the 1960s-70s. Pic attached of a red bottle with a Peoples Republic of China label. You can see how the design became abbreviated, and the spirals more loose.
But what does it represent? Artemesia? Was it inspired by a combination of the lotus scroll pattern and Western acanthus scroll designs? Buddhist imagery because of what appears to be a pendant jewel? It seems to be a pattern unique to China, and it died when the old cloisonne artists finally passed away.
Does it appear on porcelain pieces?
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