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A VERY FINE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL CENSER AND GILT-BRONZE This exquisite censer is extraordinarily well-crafted and features strong
COVER colors precisely applied within fine, accurately bent wires that delineate the
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722) contours of the emphatic design. This refinement is echoed in the precise
execution of the key-fret pattern around the edges of the mouth rim, the
The censer is cast with a tri-lobed body raised on three short tapering legs elegantly splayed rope-twist handles, and the superb casting of the pierced
and a pair of rope-twist handles rising from the rim. The exterior of the body cover decorated with five-clawed dragons amidst vaporous clouds below
and the legs are finely decorated with lotus scrolls below a band of florets stalks of lingzhi that rise like flames on the bud-form finial.
encircling the neck. The gilt-bronze cover is cast in openwork with a pair of
dragons contesting a flaming pearl amidst clouds, below a bud-form finial cast The proportions of the censer, with its generously rounded body tapering to
with conjoined ruyi clouds. the three tiny feet, are similar to a Kangxi mark-and-period cloisonné enamel
7 in. (17.8 cm.) high, brocade box censer in the Qing Court Collection, Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in
The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 43 - Metal-
$30,000-50,000 bodied Enamel Ware, Hong Kong, 2002, p. 83, no. 80. Also illustrated, p. 82,
no. 79, is another Kangxi mark-and-period cloisonné enamel censer in the
PROVENANCE: Qing Court Collection that is also raised on three small tapering feet, but
Private collection, New England. has a broader, more compressed body and plain loop handles. Similar small
tapering feet can also be seen on the painted enamel tripod censer, bearing a
Kangxi yuzhi mark, from the Alfred Morrison Collection, Fonthill House, sold
清康熙 掐絲琺瑯蓮紋三足爐附鎏金銅蓋 at Christie’s London, 9 November 2004, lot 21.
來源:
Similar treatment of the lotus blossoms can be seen on the cloisonné enamel
私人珍藏, 新英格蘭
‘champion vase’ dated to the Kangxi period from the Springfield Museums
Collection, and formerly in the collection of George Walter Vincent Smith
(1832-1923), sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 November 2020, lot 2907.
See also, a Kangxi-period cloisonné enamel vase with similar lotus scroll
decoration, from the collection of Juan Jose Amezaga, sold at Christie’s Paris,
13 June 2007, lot 19.

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