Lot 3139
3139
A FINE RARE FAMILLE ROSE ‘EIGHT BUDDHIST EMBLEMS’ TRIPOD CENSER
PROPERTY FROM THE QUEK KIOK LEE COLLECTION
A FINE RARE FAMILLE ROSE ‘EIGHT BUDDHIST EMBLEMS’ TRIPOD CENSER

QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE IN A LINE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A FINE RARE FAMILLE ROSE ‘EIGHT BUDDHIST EMBLEMS’ TRIPOD CENSER
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE IN A LINE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The censer is potted with a compressed globular body decorated in underglaze-blue and enamelled with the Eight Buddhist Emblems, Bajixiang, alternating with lotus blooms on scrolling leafy tendrils extending onto the cabriole legs beneath a band of ruyi-heads. The shoulders are set with tall upright curved handles, a scrolling lotus foliage collar around the recessed neck, below a galleried rim with a multi-coloured key-fret border reserving the reign mark written in a horizontal line. The base is decorated with a flowerhead within a puce floral border.
9 7/8 in. (25.2 cm.) wide across the handles
Further details
Please note that the use of the symbol ~ for this particular lot is in reference only to the coral finial. The historical CITES paperwork for this item is not available and it will not be possible to obtain CITES export permit to ship it to addresses outside Hong Kong post-sale. The item can only be shipped to addresses within Hong Kong or collected from our Hong Kong saleroom and office. Please contact the department for further information.

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Lot Essay

A related Qianlong mark-and-period white-ground famille rose censer with similar shape and decoration but with a slightly different mouth rim is included in National Palace Museum, Taipei, Special Exhibition of Incense Burners and Perfumes throughout the Dynasties, Taipei, 1994, p. 266, no. 120. Compare also with the slightly larger Qianlong mark and period white-ground famille rose censer with a similar decoration from the Collection of Dr. Gordon and Dr. Rosemary Fryer sold at Christie’s London, 14 May 2013, lot 226.
Two similar censers but reserved on a pink ground were sold at Christie’s: one in London on 15 May 2018, lot 262, from the collection of the Gardener family, Hertfordshire and another in Hong Kong on 26 November 2014, lot 3314. A unique comparable censer with rouge-enamel for the dragon decoration and glazed in turquoise-ground was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong on 28 November 2018, lot 2925.

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