A CLOISONNE ENAMEL CIRCULAR TRIPOD CENSER MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY

the flared sides flanked by a pair of zoomorphic mask handles, supported by three squat cabriole legs, decorated overall in cloisonn?enamels, to the exterior with six large lotus blooms on a continuous meandering leafy stem, above a band of upright lappets, the interior inset with a gilt-metal insert below a band of scrolling lotus, the base similarly decorated with scrolling lotus

For two comparable cloisonn?censers in the Uldry Collection, see Brinker and Lutz, Chinesisches Cloisonne ?Die Sammlung Pierre Uldry, Zurich, 1985, pl. 116 and 117.