A VERY FINE PAIR OF IMPERIAL GILT-COPPER AND CLOISONNE ENAMEL PARFUMIERS

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A VERY FINE PAIR OF IMPERIAL GILT-COPPER AND CLOISONNE ENAMEL PARFUMIERS
INCISED QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD

Each modelled as a pagoda, supported on a waisted base decorated with floral lappets above four feet cast as taotie masks and beneath a pierced gallery supporting the tall cylindrical lantern, applied with a writhing coiled dragon and surmounted by a tiered pagoda style cover elaborately applied with pierced aprons and dragon flanges beneath a lotus know finial (one with minor bruising and one cover flange missing)--45 1/2in. (115.5cm.) high (2)

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Cf. a pair of turquoise-inlaid gilt-bronze incense burners of this shape in the Shenyang Palace Museum, one is illustrated by R. Thorp, Son of Heaven, Imperial Arts of China, no. 37, 38; another pair in the Forbidden City, with gilt dragons possibly on a cloisonne ground is displayed in the throne room inside the Palace of Heavenly Purity, is by illustrated Wan-go Weng and Yang Boda, The Palace Museum: Peking, p. 51

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