AN IMPERIAL CLOISONNE ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE CENSER AND COVER, raised on four bracket feet, the rectangular body decorated on a turquoise ground with panels depicting a lakescape with bridges, pavilions, flowering plants and trees all below birds and swirling clouds, the cover with pairs of kui dragons confronted around flaming pearls amongst cloud- and fire-scrolls below hexagonal cell-pattern on the flat top, surmounted by a gilt-bronze ingot-shaped finial containing conch shells, ingots and wheat-sheaves, the end panels set with pairs of animal-mask handles suspending loose rings supported by gilt-bronze Western Asiatic bearded figures wearing open flowing robes, pointed caps and jewelled necklaces (minor damage and restoration),

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AN IMPERIAL CLOISONNE ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE CENSER AND COVER, raised on four bracket feet, the rectangular body decorated on a turquoise ground with panels depicting a lakescape with bridges, pavilions, flowering plants and trees all below birds and swirling clouds, the cover with pairs of kui dragons confronted around flaming pearls amongst cloud- and fire-scrolls below hexagonal cell-pattern on the flat top, surmounted by a gilt-bronze ingot-shaped finial containing conch shells, ingots and wheat-sheaves, the end panels set with pairs of animal-mask handles suspending loose rings supported by gilt-bronze Western Asiatic bearded figures wearing open flowing robes, pointed caps and jewelled necklaces (minor damage and restoration),

first half of the 18th Century
46.5cm. wide overall, wood stand

Lot Essay

The only other example that has been apparently published is the larger rectangular cooler supported at each end by a kneeling 'barbarian', now in the Victoria and Albert Museum; see Michel Beurdeley, Chinese Furniture, col. pl.200

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