A VERY RARE BEIJING ENAMEL FAMILLE ROSE TRIPOD CENSER

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A VERY RARE BEIJING ENAMEL FAMILLE ROSE TRIPOD CENSER
ENCIRCLED YONGZHENG FOUR-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The compressed body raised on three short supports, the sides delicatedly enamelled with four full peaches issuing from fruiting and flowering branches framing seasonal flowers and fruit including lotus, roses and morning glories, prunus and golden double gourds reserved on a yellow ground enriched with a dense peony scroll, intertwined with linghzi and bats in flight, the interior turquoise (tiny enamel losses overpainted)
4 in. (10 cm.) diam., box

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PLEASE NOTE - THERE IS AN AREA OF RESTORATION TO THE UNDERSIDE OF THE CENSER.

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It is rare to find enamel tripod censers of this shape bearing Yongzheng marks.

A closely related Kangxi-marked famille rose yellow-ground Beijing enamel censer surrounded by a elaborate peony scroll is illustrated in Masterpieces of Chinese Enamel Ware in the National Palace Museum, pl. 37. Another famille rose Qianlong-marked censer of related decoration, although reserved on a black ground, from the Stephen Junkunc III collection, sold in our New York Rooms, 28 March 1996, lot 141.

Compare also with the Beijing enamel vase illustrated by Hugh Moss, By Imperial Command, pl. 18, where the Yongzheng four-character mark is written within a similar peach-shaped panel.

(US$24,000-28,000)

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