Lot 130. A large cloisonné enamel tripod dish, Ming dynasty, 16th-17th century. Estimate 30,000 — 50,000 USD. Photo Sotheby's.

raised on three ruyi-shaped gilt-bronze feet, with steep straight sides rising to an everted rim, enameled to the interior with a large meandering lotus and chrysanthemum scroll, bordered by a cloud border, the well with a continuous chrysanthemum scroll enclosed within a further cloud border, the base similarly decorated, all enameled in red, blue, yellow, white and green and reserved on a turquoise-blue ground, the rims gilt. Diameter 14 1/4  in., 36.2 cm

Provenance: Yamanaka & Co., New York, 1944.

Sotheby's. Chinese Art from Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, New York, 15 Mar 2016, 02:00 PM