QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

The most remarkable aspect of the present lot is that it is crafted in imitation of gilt-bronze vessels of the same form. Gilt-bronze counterparts include: one formerly from the Herbert R. Bishop Collection sold at Christie’s London, 15 June 1999, lot 105; one sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 April 2000, lot 564; one included by the National Palace Museum in Gugong lidai xiangju tulu (Special Exhibition of Incense Burners and Perfumers Throughout the Dynasties), Taipei, 1994, no. 119; and one in the British Museum, illustrated on the cover of the Catalogue for the Collection of Oriental Antiquities, London 1989.