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80 160824/1
A fine and rare Chinese cloisonné enamel
square form censer and cover, fangding
jingtai six character mark, 16th/17th
century
of archaistic form, the rectangular-
sectioned body brightly enamelled in blue,
yellow, white and red with abstract taotie
masks design and various auspicious emblems, each side
bordered and centred with a vertical gilt flange, the
reticulated gilt and cloisonné enameled cover with kuilong
and clouds surmounted by a stylized dragon, all raised on
four similarly cloisonné-enameled high splayed legs.
H: 14 1/2 in., 37cm
provenance:
Property from a Philadelphia estate
note:
For a 16th century censer of dissimilar body form but with
comparable archaistic reticulated gilt bronze vent and finial
see Sotheby’s Paris Lot 42, June 23, 2016
$10,000-15,000