A FAMILLE ROSE 'BAJIXIANG' TWO-HANDLED TRIPOD CENSER, DING

JIAQING SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN IRON-RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)

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A FAMILLE ROSE 'BAJIXIANG' TWO-HANDLED TRIPOD CENSER, DING
JIAQING SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN IRON-RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)
The globular body is decorated with The Eight Buddhist Emblems, Bajixiang, amongst flowering lotus and scrolling foliage. The neck and feet are similarly decorated with lotus scrolls and each curved handle is decorated with two iron-red bats enclosing amongst further floral scrolls.
10 5/8 in. (26.9 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

For an almost identical censer, see Gunhild Avitabile, Vom Schatz der Drachen [From the Dragons Treasure], 1987, col. plate 5, p. 22.

A similarly-formed censer but with a pink ground sold at Christie's South Kensington, 11 November 2015, lot 682.

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