CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, EPOQUE QIANLONG (1736-1795)

The present lot may be compared with two almost identical cockerel censers offered individually at Christie's London on 6 November 2007, lot 103 and on 3 November 2009, lot 163. A pair of cloisonne enamel cockerel censers from the Qianlong period is illustrated in Colorful, Elegant, and Exquisite, A Special Exhibition of Imperial Enamel Ware from Mr. Robert Chang's Collection, Suzhou Museum, 2007, p.42 & 43 and a single cockerel is illustrated in Cloisonne: Chinese enamels from the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, Beatrice Quette (ed.), 2011, no. 111, p 280.