A CLOISONNE ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE TRIPOD CENSER AND COVER

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A CLOISONNE ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE TRIPOD CENSER AND COVER
18TH/19TH CENTURY

Enamelled around the body with a continuous lotus scroll, set at the shoulders with a pair of elephant-head handles and supported on gilt tripod feet fashioned as harnessed elephant-trunks, the domed cover enamelled with a further band of lotus flowers below a pierced floral scroll and topped by a recumbent elephant supporting a vase on its back as the finial
8 1/4 in. (21 cm.) high

Lot Essay

A very similar censer of the same shape and decoration was included in the exhibition, Antique Chinese Cloisonn, April/May 1983, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia, Catalogue, front cover.

(US$4,500-5,500)

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