Lot Essay
Censer of this shape are very rare. Compare this very elaborately decorated lot to another cloisonne enamel mandarin duck-form censer, modelled with one leg raised to its lower body and dated to the late Ming period, illustrated in Metal-Bodied Enamel Ware, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Commercial Press Hong Kong, 2002, p.79, no.76.