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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION
A RARE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL CENSER AND COVER, FANGDING
QIANLONG CAST FOUR-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
Details
A RARE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL CENSER AND COVER, FANGDING
QIANLONG CAST FOUR-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The tapering rectangular censer has twin upright handles and is decorated to each side with raised flanges separating a taotie mask below a band of archaistic kui dragons, all supported on four blade-shaped legs emerging from mythical-beast terminals. The reticulated gilt-metal cover is decorated with pierced foliage and enamelled with angular scrolls and is surmounted by a finial in the shape of a Buddhist lion with a be-ribboned brocade ball.
15 ¾ in. (40 cm.) high
QIANLONG CAST FOUR-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The tapering rectangular censer has twin upright handles and is decorated to each side with raised flanges separating a taotie mask below a band of archaistic kui dragons, all supported on four blade-shaped legs emerging from mythical-beast terminals. The reticulated gilt-metal cover is decorated with pierced foliage and enamelled with angular scrolls and is surmounted by a finial in the shape of a Buddhist lion with a be-ribboned brocade ball.
15 ¾ in. (40 cm.) high
Provenance
Acquired in Germany before 1989.
Literature
Dr. Gunhild Gabbert Avitabile, Die Ware aus dem Teufelsland, Chinesische und japanische Cloisonné – und Champlevé-Arbeiten von 1400 bis 1900, Germany, 1981, cat. no. 79
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