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DAY ONE: AFTERNOON SESSION – 2.00 PM (LOTS 682-896 INCLUSIVE)
PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION, ACQUIRED PRIOR TO 1990 (LOTS 682-697 INCLUSIVE)
歐洲私人珍藏，於1990年之前購入 （拍品第682至697號）
~682 PROVENANCE:
A PINK-GROUND FAMILLE ROSE TRIPOD CENSER Private European Collection, acquired prior to 1990.
JIAQING SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN IRON RED AND OF THE
PERIOD (1796-1820) Compare this censer to a similar censer sold at Sotheby’s, Hong Kong,
30 April 1996, lot 508; another example was sold at Christie’s, London,
清嘉慶 粉彩粉地八寶纏枝蓮紋三足爐 礬紅六字篆書橫款 13 September 2011, lot 237; see also a ruby-ground censer of the same date
sold at Sotheby’s, New York, 19 March 2013, lot 220.
The censor is decorated with The Eight Buddhist Emblems, Bajixiang,
amongst lotus fowers on leafy scrolls. The neck and feet are similarly
decorated with lotus scrolls and each handle is decorated with two confronting
bats enclosing further foral scrolls. There is a later carved wood cover which is
surmounted by a stained ivory stand adapted as a fnial.
17 æ in. (45.1 cm.) high
£15,000-25,000 $23,000-38,000
€21,000-34,000
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