A CLOISONNE ENAMEL TRIPOD CENSER

MING DYNASTY, 16TH/17TH CENTURY

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A CLOISONNE ENAMEL TRIPOD CENSER
MING DYNASTY, 16TH/17TH CENTURY
The compressed body raised on three gilt-bronze elephant supports and decorated around the sides with six large lotus blossoms borne on scrolling leafy tendrils below a ruyi head border and above a large multicolored, spiralled flower head in the center of the base, with a blue scroll band encircling the neck, and with a pair of gilt-bronze handles formed as coiled chilong that grasp the everted rim
6½ in. (16.5 cm.) high and wide

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A smaller (12.7 cm.) cloisonné enamel censer, featuring the same gilt-bronze feet and handles, although decorated with cranes amidst clouds, is illustrated by H. Brinker and A. Lutz in Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry Collection, Zurich, 1989, no. 56, where it is dated first half 16th century. Closely related handles can also be seen on an early Ming drum-shaped cloisonné censer in the Qing Court collection, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - Metal-Bodied Enamel Ware, Hong Kong, 2002, p. 17, no. 15.

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