A GILT-BRONZE AND CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL HANGING BASKET 17TH CENTURY

the ovoid body with a constricted waist, rising from a spreading foot to a waisted neck, surmounted by a wide galleried rim forming a basket, set with a gilt-bronze chain handle decorated with kui dragons, the body brightly decorated with flowering branches issuing from jagged rocks between horizontal bands of floral scrolls and lingzhi sprays, the basket, the bulbous section of the body and the stepped foot decorated with gilt-bronze archaistic phoenix, kui dragons and mythical beasts in openwork, the rim bordered with a keyfret band

The upright handles and openwork bands to the foot, shoulder and top have some areas of repair and re-gilding. There is wear/loss to the gilding to the interior of the basket and to the exterior base.
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