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2903

A MASSIVE CLOISONNE ENAMEL DOUBLE-LOZENGE
FORM CENSER AND COVER

QING DYNASTY, 18TH-EARLY 19TH CENTURY

The censer is cast in the form of a double-lozenge and decorated on the exterior with
four shou characters surrounded by the Eight Buddhist Emblems and the Eight Daoist
Emblems supported on lotus sprays, interspersed by further precious objects. The
censer is flanked by a pair gilt-bronze ribbon-form handles on either side and supported
on four gilt-bronze humanoid legs. The fitted cover has reticulated panels featuring
bats amid clouds below a gilt-bronze ribbon-form finial.
26 ½ in. (67.5 cm.) wide

HK$600,000-800,000
US$78,000-100,000

PROVENANCE:
George Walter Vincent Smith (1832-1923), Springfield, Massachusetts, acquired prior to 1910
LITERATURE:
Oskar Münsterberg, Chinesische Kunstgeschichte, vol. II, Esslingen, 1912, p. 466, fig. 652 (fig. 1)

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Smith Art Museum, circa 1907 Chinesische Kunstgeschichte, vol. II,
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