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A gilt-bronze and cloisonné enamel tripod incense burner Mark and period of Qianlong | 清乾隆 掐絲琺瑯蓮紋沖天耳三足爐 《乾隆年製 漢》
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June 16, 02:39 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
Property from a European private collection
A gilt-bronze and cloisonné enamel tripod incense burner
Mark and period of Qianlong
globular set with loop handles, decorated with scrolling lotus against a turquoise ground, the base with an inset bronze square incised with the four-character mark in a horizontal line above the character han
12 x 11 cm, 4 3/4 by 4 3/8 in.
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Collection particulière européenne
Brûle-parfum tripode en bronze doré et émaux cloisonnés, marque et époque Qianlong
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歐洲私人收藏
清乾隆 掐絲琺瑯蓮紋沖天耳三足爐
《乾隆年製 漢》
Galerie 41, Monaco, 20th October 2006.
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Galerie 41，摩納哥，2006年10月20日
Compare a related incense burner from the Rolf Heiniger collection, similarly marked, but with a detached character jie, sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 11th April 2008, lot 2806. The companion piece to the latter, with a four-character mark and a single detached character han, was offered in our London rooms, 11th May 1978, lot 76.
Another cloisonné enamel tripod censer, of different form, with lotus-scroll decoration and incised four-character Qianlong mark and of the period, with additional incised character, is illustrated in Helmut Brinker and Albert Lutz, Chinese Cloisonné. The Pierre Uldry Collection, Zurich, 1989, nos. 245, 245a. Brinker and Lutz discuss this use of a supplemental character with the reign mark found on some cloisonné pieces of the Qianlong period, suggesting these characters refer to locations or possibly, when related pieces are assembled, the characters confer a salutation or propitious wish (ibid. p. 74).
