拍品 294
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A VERY RARE YELLOW-GROUND PUCE-ENAMELLED TRIPOD CENSER AND COVER
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 
A VERY RARE YELLOW-GROUND PUCE-ENAMELLED TRIPOD CENSER AND COVER

19TH CENTURY

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A VERY RARE YELLOW-GROUND PUCE-ENAMELLED TRIPOD CENSER AND COVER
19TH CENTURY
The globular body brightly enamelled with two pairs of confronted long-bodied five-clawed dragons interspersed by a flaming pearl and amidst vaporous clouds, the recessed neck with a band of geometric scrolls and bearing a four-character mark reading 'qing shan tang zhi', the sides applied with two long curved handles, the domed cover pierced and moulded with writhing dragons and surmounted by a pearl-form finial, all supported on three cabriole legs emanating from ferocious monster masks and reserved on a bright yellow ground
18½ in. (47 cm.) high

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The four-character mark reading 'Qing Shan Tang Zhi' may be translated as 'Hall of Celebrating Benevolence.

The Qing Shan Hall is part of the Deheyuan, Garden of Virtue and Harmony, which is housed in the Summer Palace and was commissioned as a theatre by the Empress Dowager Cixi in 1891. See Joshua Goldstein, Drama Kings: Players and Publics in the Re-creation of Peking Opera, 1870-1937, California, 2007, p. 300. It is the largest of the three famous theatres built in the Qing dynasty.

The Deheyuan consisted of a theater building named Daxitai, Grand theatre, and two halls, Yiledian, Hall of Cultivated Joy, and Qingshan Tang where it is believed the Empress Dowager retired for rest.