Arts d'Asie

A cloisonné enamel 'lotus' tripod censer, Mark and period of Qianlong

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June 11, 12:00 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 EUR

Lot Details

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Description

the base incised with a four-character mark and gao character within a square

Width 11.5 cm, 4½ in

French Private Collection formed in Paris during the 1920s.

The additional gao (lit. 'high') character below the reign mark is believed to derive from the Chinese classic Qianziwen, 'The One Thousand Word Essay', and was used by the Imperial workshops to identify and locate pieces as part of larger palace assemblages. Compare a closely related pair of censers numbered jun and jing from the Collection of David B. Peck III sold at Christie's New York, 18th September 2014, lots 615 and 616; and another of han mark sold in these rooms, 16th June 2022, lot 41.

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