Lot 1312
1312
A CLOISONNE ENAMEL TRIPOD CENSER AND COVER
PROPERTY FROM THE CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE COLLECTIONS FUND
A CLOISONNE ENAMEL TRIPOD CENSER AND COVER

QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

Details
A CLOISONNE ENAMEL TRIPOD CENSER AND COVER
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
The globular body is decorated around the sides with foliate scroll framing three lotus flowers that alternate with pairs of bats confronted on shou medallions positioned above each of the three tall cabriole legs that issue from lion masks. The shoulder is encircled by a band of linked ruyi heads, and the sides are flanked by a pair of archaistic bird-form handles with gilt-metal wings. The domed cover is surmounted by a finial above three large bat-decorated ruyi panels reserved on a gilt-metal openwork ground of lotus scroll.
20 in. (50.9 cm.) high, wood stand
Provenance
Anderson Galleries, New York, 1 April 1937, lot 117.
Lewis N. Cotlow (1898-1987) Collection, New York and Florida.

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Lot Essay

Compare a similar cloisonné enamel censer with pierced cover, with gilt-bronze chilong handles and supported on cabriole legs surmounted by lion masks, illustrated in The Crawford Bequest, Chinese Objects in the Collection of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island and School of Design, Brown University, Rhode Island, 1993, p. 110, no. 76,

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