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349 † The present lot is highly unusual in its decorative technique of a thin
layer of enamelling surrounding high-relief metal threads, however for a
A pair of silver-alloy and Canton enamel tripod incense burners five-piece garniture in a related design dated to the Qianlong period, see
Wang Jiepeng, Buddhist Art from Rehol: Tibetan Buddhist Images and
18th/19th century Ritual Objects from the Qing Dynasty Summer Palace at Chengde, Taipei,
1999, no.70.
Each with a repoussé cylindrical body painted in enamel with nine bats
in flight amid cloud scrolls, all above pendent foliate lappets and raised
on three straight legs also with lappets, a narrow band containing three
pairs of confronted chilong chasing a flaming pearl beneath the rim cast
with a band of key-fret and surmounted by two upright handles.
Each 20.4cm (8in) high (2).
£12,000 - 15,000
HK$140,000 - 180,000 CNY110,000 - 140,000
十八/十九世紀 銀合金畫琺瑯九蝠螭龍紋衝耳爐一對
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