QIANLONG INCISED SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

Compare to two cloisonné enamel tripod censers of almost identical shape and design, but with lotus instead of chrysanthemum scrolls, one bearing a gilt square plaque inscribed with a four-character Qianlong mark above the character Mian, another with a gilt rectangular plaque bearing a six-character Qianlong mark above the character Yu, in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing and illustrated in Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum - Enamels (2) - Cloisonne in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), Beijing, 2011, pls. 224-225 (fig. 1). Another similar tripod censer, decorated with lotuses and bearing a gilt square plaque inscribed with a four-character Qianlong mark with additional character Li, is illustrated by H. Brinker and A. Lutz in Chinesisches Cloisonné - Die Sammlung Pierre Uldry, Zurich 1985, pl.245.