19TH CENTURY

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A CLOISONNE ENAMEL TRIPOD CENSER
19TH CENTURY
The compressed body is raised on three conical supports, and decorated around the sides with eight large lotus blossoms alternating with buds borne on scrolling leafy tendrils below a ruyi-head border. The base is inset with a rectangular plaque incised fang Ming (in imitation of Ming), surrounded by three further lotus blossoms and smaller flower heads. The pair of gilt-bronze handles are formed by the arched backs of chilong that grasp the everted rim.
9 in. (23 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

Two censers attributed to the 19th century, of the same form and bearing the same mark, in the Uldry Collection, are illustrated by H. Brinker and A. Lutz in Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry Collection, Zurich, 1989, nos. 258 and 359.

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