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PROPERTY FROM THE SPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS, SOLD TO SUPPORT ART ACQUISITIONS AND COLLECTIONS CARE
A MASSIVE CLOISONNE ENAMEL DOUBLE-LOZENGE FORM CENSER AND COVER
QING DYNASTY, 18TH-EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Details
A MASSIVE CLOISONNE ENAMEL DOUBLE-LOZENGE FORM CENSER AND COVER
QING DYNASTY, 18TH-EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The censer is cast in the form of a double-lozenge and decorated on the exterior with four shou characters surrounded by the Eight Buddhist Emblems and the Eight Daoist Emblems supported on lotus sprays, interspersed by further precious objects. The censer is flanked by a pair gilt-bronze ribbon-form handles on either side and supported on four gilt-bronze humanoid legs. The fitted cover has reticulated panels featuring bats amid clouds below a gilt-bronze ribbon-form finial.
26 1/2 in. (67.5 cm.) wide
QING DYNASTY, 18TH-EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The censer is cast in the form of a double-lozenge and decorated on the exterior with four shou characters surrounded by the Eight Buddhist Emblems and the Eight Daoist Emblems supported on lotus sprays, interspersed by further precious objects. The censer is flanked by a pair gilt-bronze ribbon-form handles on either side and supported on four gilt-bronze humanoid legs. The fitted cover has reticulated panels featuring bats amid clouds below a gilt-bronze ribbon-form finial.
26 1/2 in. (67.5 cm.) wide
Provenance
George Walter Vincent Smith (1832-1923), Springfield, Massachusetts, acquired prior to 1910
Literature
Oskar Münsterberg, Chinesische Kunstgeschichte, vol. II, Esslingen, 1912, p. 466, fig. 652 (fig. 1)