拍品專文
An identical vase from the Herbert R. Bishop Collection which was included in the National Academy of Design loan exhibition in 1893, initially sold in the American Art Galleries, 25 January 1906, lot 2305, and sold again in our London Rooms, 15 June 1999, lot 105.
Cf. two other very similar hardstone-inlaid censers both dated to the 18th century, the first included in the National Palace Museum Special Exhibition of Incense Burners and Perfumers Throughout the Dynasties, is illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 119; the other is in the British Museum, illustrated on the cover of the Catalogue for the Collection of Oriental Antiquities, London 1989.
A comparable example, a pair of censers inlaid with turquoise carvings in the Shenyang Palace Museum, is illustrated by R. L. Thorp, Son of Heaven, Imperial Arts in China, Seattle, 1988, no. 33, p. 40, where one is illustrated.
(US$90,000-100,000)
Cf. two other very similar hardstone-inlaid censers both dated to the 18th century, the first included in the National Palace Museum Special Exhibition of Incense Burners and Perfumers Throughout the Dynasties, is illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 119; the other is in the British Museum, illustrated on the cover of the Catalogue for the Collection of Oriental Antiquities, London 1989.
A comparable example, a pair of censers inlaid with turquoise carvings in the Shenyang Palace Museum, is illustrated by R. L. Thorp, Son of Heaven, Imperial Arts in China, Seattle, 1988, no. 33, p. 40, where one is illustrated.
(US$90,000-100,000)