An iron-red enamelled 'lotus' censer, Seal mark and period of Jiaqing | 清嘉慶 礬紅彩福壽蓮紋三足爐 《大清嘉慶年製》款

Compare a closely related example forming part of an altar garniture in the Ethnographical Museum, Leiden, published in Anthony van Oort, Chinese Porcelain of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Lochem, 1977, pl. 1; a similar example sold in these rooms, 14th November 2001, lot 125; and a yellow-ground censer in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics. 14 (2). Qing, Shanghai, 1999, pl. 139;