Lot 105
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AN UNUSUAL CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL TRIPOD CENSER AND COVER
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AN UNUSUAL CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL TRIPOD CENSER AND COVER

QIANLONG (1736-95)

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AN UNUSUAL CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL TRIPOD CENSER AND COVER
QIANLONG (1736-95)
With bulbous body standing on three waisted legs, applied with two upright square handles on the rim, decorated in fine gilt wires with archaistic designs of taotie and blades, and enamelled in green, yellow, red and blue to simulate the patination of archaic bronze, the domed cover similarly decorated within cloud-collar panels, and pierced with cloud scrolls below an ovoid finial
7 in. (17.5 cm.) high
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium

Lot Essay

Compare two other examples of cloisonné enamel imitating archaic bronze, one a you in the Palace Museum Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures from the Palace Museum, Beijing, no. 126; the other a covered jar in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Enamel Ware in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, 1999, no. 126.

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