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PROPERTY FROM A HONG KONG PRIVATE 清乾隆
FAMILY COLLECTION 御製鎏金銅鏨錦地開光纏蓮福壽有餘折沿熏爐

A MAGNIFICENT AND LARGE 來源：
IMPERIAL GILT-COPPER 香港佳士得1996年4月28日，編號26
REPOUSSE INCENSE BURNER AND
COVER
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG
PERIOD

modelled with deep rounded sides flanked by
a pair of lion mask handles suspending loose
rings, rising from three cabriole legs to a wide
everted rim with barbed edges, the exterior
decorated in repoussé with lobed cartouches
enclosing a stylised bat in flight, clutching in its
mouth a knotted ribbon suspending a pair of
confronting dragon fish, surrounded by further
bats interspersed amongst a leafy lotus meander
on a matt ground, all reserved against a cellular
diaper ground, the flat rim similarly decorated
with stylised lotus sprays and C-scrolls, hemmed
with a key-fret band on the sides, the three
legs decorated with stylised palmette leaves
terminating in scrolled feet, all surmounted by
a domed cover with three stepped tiers, the
bottom two tiers pierced with shaped cartouches
enclosing floral and foliate sprays in openwork,
divided by composite floral sprays with interlaced
foliate scrolls divided by ruyi bands, the upper tier
decorated with a band of alternating floret and
foliate motifs divided by reticulated foliate scrolls,
below further floral, ruyi and lappet bands,
crowned by a bud-form finial enclosed within
petal lappets, the interior of the incense burner
lined with a metal container with ring handles
overall h. 81.5 cm, 32⅛ in.

PROVENANCE
Christie’s Hong Kong, 28th April 1996, lot 26.

HK$ 800,000-1,200,000
US$ 103,000-154,000

180 SOTHEBY’S 蘇富比