A cloisonné enamel tripod incense burner, Early Ming dynasty

Italian Private Collection.

A cloisonne incense burners of the same form and decoration, one from the Avery Brundage Collection, now in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, was included in the exhibition Cloisonné. Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, Bard Graduate Center, New York, 2011, cat. no. 23; and another, with its cover, illustrated in Chinese Cloisonné. The Pierre Uldry Collection, The Asia Society Galleries, New York, 1989, cat. no. 15. See also a closely related example without applied animal-masks surmounting the legs, sold in our New York rooms, 21st March 2018, lot 587; and a porcelain censer of closely related form excavated from a Xuande context at Xigucheng, Anci county in 1957, illustrated in Hebei sheng chutu wenwu xuanji [Cultural relics excavated in Hebei], Beijing, 1980, pl. 424.