A FINE CHINESE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL 'LOTUS' TRIPOD CENSER
清乾隆 銅胎掐絲琺瑯蓮紋三足爐 《乾隆年製澄》楷書款

A FINE CHINESE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL 'LOTUS' TRIPOD CENSER

Qing Dynasty, Qianlong mark and of the period

清乾隆 銅胎掐絲琺瑯蓮紋三足爐

《乾隆年製澄》楷書款

Formed with a bombé-shaped body supported by three cabriole legs and rising to a waisted neck below a protruding rim surmounted by a pair of slender upright handles, decorated to the exterior with cloisons worked to depict stylised polychrome lotus flowers issuing from scrolling leafy stems below a band of ruyi lappets and clusters of blossoms, all on a pale blue ground, the base with a square cartouche incised with a four-character Qianlong mark in a line above an additional cheng character

11.7cm high, the caliber 7cm diameter

weight approx. 577g

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PROVENANCE:

French Private Collection;
Art d'extreme-orient, Ader Picard Tajan, 25th May 1987, lot 148

法國私人收藏

巴黎遠東藝術，1987年5月25日，拍品編號148

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NOTE:

See a comparable censer, the mark with a fifth jing character, sold at Christie's New York, 18 Sep 2014, lot 616. Another comparable censer was sold at Christie's New York, 30 May 2006, lot 1564. See another comparable censer with a zhen mark, sold at Bonhams Hong Kong, 28 May 2010, lot 274. Another similar censer was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8 April 2010, lot 1959.

A related cloisonné enamel tripod censer is illustrated by Helmut Brinker and Albert Lutz in 'Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry Collection', Zurich, 1989, nos. 245, 245a, in which they suggest that the additional character referred to either a location or when related pieces were assembled, and were also used to confer an auspicious message.

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