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            A SUPERB IMPERIAL CLOSIONNE                       ᪺̗㡳   ྽⽗ኰ⚙ᾬώ㩲㩐♄ᑝ㸆མ⯰ۣᷴ
            ENAMEL ‘TAOTIE’ FANGDING-                         㝄⣑ᾬώ➂ᗌⰉ♄༄
            FORM CENSER AND COVER, AND A                      Ϝᬜ
            CHAMPLEVE STAND                                   ܂ࡘᦆԱ⁥䢮         䢯䢲ᑔᓢᗆ⬼ḓ࿍䢲㷄Ⲭバਫ਼๷䢲
            QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)                       Նⳉᑞ    ໝ͠ע

            The large censer is superbly cast in the form of an
            archaic bronze fangding, each side is decorated with a
            taotie mask on a ground of scrolling lotus sprays, divided
            in the centre and at the corners with gilt-bronze vertical
            flanges, all raised above four cabriole legs emerging
            from lions masks. The rectangular domed cover has a
            gilt-bronze reticulated panel on each side with three bats
            flying amid clouds, below a finely cast finial in the form of
            a lion with one front paw on a brocade ball. The shaped
            champlevé stand is decorated with lotus scrolls on the
            sides and the top.
            Censer and cover: 18 ¼ in. (46.5 cm.) high
            Overall with stand: 21 ⅛ in. (53.5 cm.) high

            HK$2,400,000-3,500,000
            US$320,000-450,000

            PROVENANCE:
            George Walter Vincent Smith (1832-1923), Springfield,
            Massachusetts, acquired prior to 1910















                                                                     The current censer photographed c. 1900 -1910.
                                                                    The image was sent by Mr. Smith to early admirers of
                                                                      the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum
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