CHINA / 5000 YEARS

CHINA / 5000 YEARS

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 511. A parcel-gilt silver tripod censer, Qing dynasty, Daoguang - Xianfeng period 清道光至咸豐 銀局部鎏金饕餮紋鼎式爐 《定府行有恒堂珍賞》款.

A parcel-gilt silver tripod censer, Qing dynasty, Daoguang - Xianfeng period 清道光至咸豐 銀局部鎏金饕餮紋鼎式爐 《定府行有恒堂珍賞》款

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November 25, 11:10 AM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 HKD

Lot Details

Description

A parcel-gilt silver tripod censer,

Qing dynasty, Daoguang - Xianfeng period

清道光至咸豐 銀局部鎏金饕餮紋鼎式爐

《定府行有恒堂珍賞》款


h. 17.3 cm

Collection of Philip Edward Howard (1929-2016).
Sotheby's New York, 15th March 2017, lot 567.

Philip Edward Howard (1929-2016) 收藏
紐約蘇富比2017年3月15日,編號567
The Xingyouhengtang ('Hall of Constancy') seal mark identifies the censer as having belonged to the Fifth Prince Ding, Zaiquan of the Qing dynasty. Xingyouhengtang was the prince's main residence in the Forbidden City. Zaiquan was the great-great-grandson of the Qianlong Emperor and had a distinguished career in the service of the court until his death in 1854. The prince was a keen art collector and appears to have made it a habit to have his hall mark inscribed on his artifacts. His collector's seal with the same six-character inscription appears on a Yuan dynasty painting by Qian Xuan titled Laiqin zhizi tu (Crabapple and Gardenia), now in the collection of the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution. For his biography see Arthur W. Hummel, Eminent Chinese of the Ching Period, Taipei, 1991, pp. 728–729.