Lot 281
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THE PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN COLLECTOR
A LARGE IMPERIAL CLOISONNE ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE CYLINDRICAL TRIPOD CENSER AND COVER, with two strap handles, the legs fashioned as elephant heads, the trunks serving as supports, the heads festooned with beading and tassels inlaided with turquoise, opal and garnet glass beads, the body decorated with lotus meander below a whorl-pattern band, the domed cover with a floral meander between a whorl-pattern band at the rim and a pierced double-confronting phoenix band encircling the elaborate dragon, cloud and flaming pearl pierced gilt knop finial on a gilt-lotus petal base (minor pitting),

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A LARGE IMPERIAL CLOISONNE ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE CYLINDRICAL TRIPOD CENSER AND COVER, with two strap handles, the legs fashioned as elephant heads, the trunks serving as supports, the heads festooned with beading and tassels inlaided with turquoise, opal and garnet glass beads, the body decorated with lotus meander below a whorl-pattern band, the domed cover with a floral meander between a whorl-pattern band at the rim and a pierced double-confronting phoenix band encircling the elaborate dragon, cloud and flaming pearl pierced gilt knop finial on a gilt-lotus petal base (minor pitting),

incised Kangxi six-character mark and of the period
66.5cm. high

Lot Essay

Cf. a pair of similar but smaller censers from the Clague Collection in the Phoenix Art Museum, Catalogue, 1980, pl.75, p.160

A similar unmarked tripod with elephant-shaped knop finial and elephant-trunk handles, formerly the property of Mrs. E. Clarke was sold 29 October, 1982, lot 20, and a similar Kangxi-marked example was sold in our Rooms, 2 April 1979, lot 39

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