MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY

Details

A SMALL CLOISONNE ENAMEL TRIPOD CENSER
MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY
The censer is fashioned with two upright loop handles, the compressed body is raised on three tapering feet. The exterior is decorated with a leafy lotus scroll with the flowers picked out in red and white, amongst dense scrolling leaves, all below a ruyi-head border to the neck and cloud scrolls to the upper surface of the rim and to the handles. The trilobed underside with three chrysanthemum sprays amongst further flowers.
4 3/4 in. (12 cm.) wide

Provenance

Sold at Christie’s London, 9 November 2010, lot 232

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Lot Essay

It is exceptional to see a bronze censer of this type with the upper surface of the rim and the sides of the handles embellished with further cloisonne enamel design.

Compare to a censer in the Musee Guimet, Paris, accession no. 2547 donated by the Rothschild family, and one in the Pierre Uldry Collection, illustrated by Helmut Brinker and Albert Lutz, Chinese Cloisonne, The Pierre Uldry Collection, New York, 1989, no. 58.

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