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Property from a Private American Collection
A CLOISONNE ENAMEL CENSER AND COVER
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
Details
A CLOISONNE ENAMEL CENSER AND COVER
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
The compressed body decorated with a band of highly stylized dragon scrolls between narrow double blue and green borders interrupted by the pair of dragon-head handles, with a band of red dots encircling the neck and raised on three mask and paw supports applied to the circular foot, the cover decorated en suite below a reticulated center finely cast as a coiled dragon guarding a flaming pearl which is set above a medallion of pierced clouds, with contemporary gilt-bronze liner
7¼ in. (18.4 cm.) across handles
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
The compressed body decorated with a band of highly stylized dragon scrolls between narrow double blue and green borders interrupted by the pair of dragon-head handles, with a band of red dots encircling the neck and raised on three mask and paw supports applied to the circular foot, the cover decorated en suite below a reticulated center finely cast as a coiled dragon guarding a flaming pearl which is set above a medallion of pierced clouds, with contemporary gilt-bronze liner
7¼ in. (18.4 cm.) across handles
Provenance
Spink & Son, London.