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PROPERTY FROM THE SPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS, SOLD TO SUPPORT ART ACQUISITIONS AND COLLECTIONS CARE
斯普菲博物館珍藏，拍賣收益將用於藏品購藏及維護
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A SUPERB IMPERIAL CLOISONNE 清十八世紀 御製掐絲琺瑯乳釘蟬紋鏤空龍鈕三足薰爐
ENAMEL ARCHAISTIC TRIPOD CENSER 來源
WITH GILT BOSSES AND COVER 史喬沃先生（1832-1923），斯普林菲爾德，麻薩諸塞州，
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY 入藏於1910年以前
The rounded body is decorated with a band of cicada-like pendent 北京故宮博物院藏一件造型及紋飾相似的蓋爐，同樣飾鎏金乳釘紋及變
lappets each enclosing a mask against a honeycomb ground, 形蟬紋，但琺瑯發色較灰澀，見2011年北京出版《故宮博物院藏品大系
the pattern similarly repeated on the three tall tubular legs. The — 琺瑯器編》，卷3，圖版187（圖一）。
shoulder is decorated with raised gilt bosses cast with wave
patterns in relief, each separated by an abstract mask, below a pair
of upright loop handles decorated with taotie masks. The cover is
embellished with four ruyi panels enclosing lotus blooms, against a
gilt-metal ground reticulated with dense lotus scrolls, surmounted
by a reticulated gilt-metal finial with a five-clawed dragon
writhing amidst clouds.
16Ω in. (41.8 cm.) high
HK$800,000-1,500,000 US$110,000-190,000

PROVENANCE
George Walter Vincent Smith (1832-1923), Springfield,
Massachusetts, acquired prior to 1910
Compare to a censer and cover of the same shape and with a very
similar design of gilt bosses and cicada blades, but with less vibrant
enamels, in the Palace Museum Collection, illustrated in Compendium
of Collections in the Palace Museum –Enamels, vol. 3, no. 187 (fig. 1).

The current lot on exhibit at the George Walter Vincent Smith
Art Museum, circa 1896
本拍品約於 1896 年陳設於史喬沃藝術博物館中

detail fig. 1 Collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing
細部 圖一 北京故宮博物院藏品

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