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A FAMILLE-ROSE CELADON-GROUND It is rare to find a censer of this type and 清乾隆 粉青地粉彩八吉祥紋
TRIPOD CENSER decoration on a celadon ground. For related 朝冠耳三足爐
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD examples of similar size but with different
colored grounds, see one with a white ground 《大清乾隆年製》款
the compressed globular body resting on three sold in these rooms, 24th november 1981, lot
cabriole feet, rising to a straight neck and a 299; a yellow-ground example sold in our hong 來源
thick lipped rim, the shoulders flanked by two Kong rooms, 28th april 1992, lot 188, and a 倫敦蘇富比1989年12月12日，編號439
upright handles sweeping outward and pierced pink-ground version recently sold at Christie’s
with rectangular apertures, enameled allover London, 15th may 2018, lot 262.
with a stylized floral scroll interspersed with For a Qianlong period celadon-ground tripod
the ‘eight Buddhist emblems’ against a bluish- censer decorated with iron-red blossoms
celadon ground, a band of ruyi heads below the amidst stylized floral sprays, see one sold
neck, a band of keyfret accentuating the rim in our London rooms, 13th July 2005, lot
and handles, a recessed double circle painted 266. see also a Jiaqing seal mark and period
with pink enamel and puce floral scrolls on the celadon-ground example similarly decorated in
underside, a six-character seal mark in iron-red famille-rose enamels with the ‘eight Buddhist
within a rectangular cartouche at the rim emblems’, sold at Christie’s south Kensington,
Width across handles 10⅜ in., 26.3 cm
12th may 2017, lot 391.
PROVENANCE
$ 30,000-40,000
sotheby’s London, 12th December 1989,
lot 439.

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