A Gilt-Bronze and Cloisonné Enamel Archaistic Censer Mark and Period of Qianlong

cast with a compressed globular body resting on three ruyi feet, the exterior finely decorated in colourful enamels against a turquoise ground with a central register enclosing three archaistic taotie masks alternating with three pairs of kui dragons, all between two key-fret bands bordering the rim and the base, the base decorated with a floral scroll and centred with a gilded panel incised with a five-character reign mark