A VERY RARE GILT-DECORATED 'IMITATION BRONZE' RETICULATED CENSER
A VERY RARE GILT-DECORATED 'IMITATION BRONZE' RETICULATED CENSER
A VERY RARE GILT-DECORATED 'IMITATION BRONZE' RETICULATED CENSER
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清乾隆 仿銅釉描金開光粉青釉鏤雕夔龍紋四足熏爐 描金六字篆書款圓筒

QIANLONG GILT SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

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圓筒身,束頸,斂口,下承四如意彎足,通體施褐色仿銅釉,描金番蓮花卉紋,四面開光施粉青釉,鏤雕夔龍紋,器裏施白釉。

此器造型獨特,似是傳世孤品,其器形應從金屬器演變而來。鏤雕瓷爐由來已久,臺北故宮博物院就藏有一件明代龍泉窰鏤空花卉紋香爐,著錄於1994年台北出版《故宮歷代香具圖錄》,164頁,圖版21號。清代例子也不少,上述圖錄中就另有一件豆清釉鏤空描金香熏,226頁,圖版81號。另見一對粉彩鏤雕香熏,2007年5月29日於香港佳士得拍賣,拍品1370號。但如本品一般工藝繁複的並不多見。

本爐的鏤雕工藝可與臺北故宮博物院一件轉心瓶的鏤雕紋飾作比較,見2008年台北出版《華麗彩瓷—乾隆洋彩》,201頁,圖版69號。

此器源自美國著名作家Ralph Delahaye Paine(1871-1925年)舊藏,他曾在中國擔任報社記者。本爐在他家族手中已達一世紀之久,流傳有緒,甚為難得。
來源
Ralph Delahaye Paine (1871-1925) and thence by descent within the family to Mrs Flora Walter (née Macnabb)
Mrs Winifred May Walter

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It is interesting to note that the present censer has remained with the descendants of Ralph Delahaye Paine over the generations for over a century. As a young man in 1900, Paine was stationed as a journalist in China and in his later life he became a well-known author.

No other example of this angular form of the present vessel appears to have been published but its shape probably found its inspiration from metalwork. It is possible that this vessel was used for the burning of incense as openwork censers are known such as the Ming period Longquan celadon tripod censer decorated with three pierced panels on the compressed body in the National Palace Museum Collection, included in A Special Exhibition of Incense Burners and Perfumers Throughout the Dynasties, 1994, and illustrated in the Catalogue, p. 164, no. 21. Qing dynasty censers are generally not as elaborately constructed and the only other comparable example is a gilt-decorated celadon-glazed parfumier in the National Palace Museum included in the same 1994 exhibition, Catalogue, p. 226, no. 81; and a pair of parfumiers sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 29 May 2007, lot 1370.

This type of openwork decorative technique popularly appeared on vases and the green-glazed dragon openwork panels are closely related to the pierced sides of revolving vase in the National Palace Museum example included in the exhibition, Stunning Decorative Porcelains from the Ch'ien-lung Reign, Taipei, and illustrated in the Catalogue, p. 201, no. 69.

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