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A CLOISONNE ENAMEL TRIPOD CENSER
AND COVER
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD

the globular body supported on three cabriole legs issuing
from mythical beast masks, the shoulder encircled by a
band of raised lappets and surmounted by a waisted neck
with a galleried rim, anked by a pair of dragon handles with
bifurcated tails, decorated around the body with formalized
lotus blossoms borne on undulating foliate scrolls, the domed
cover similarly decorated with leafy lotus blooms enclosed by
ruyi-shaped panels, against a pierced ground of pendent bats
amid clouds, all beneath an openwork nial with further lotus
scrolls (2)
Height 10 in., 25.3 cm

$ 15,000-20,000

737 738

738 PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK COLLECTION
224 SOTHEBY’S
A CLOISONNE ENAMEL DOUBLE
MOONFLASK
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

the conjoined vases of attened circular form, each section
with a tall cylindrical neck and resting on a slightly splayed
rectangular foot, similarly decorated with prunus and
magpie to one side and auspicious emblems to the other, in
polychrome enamels, one on turquoise, the other on a dark-
blue ground, wood stand (2)
Height 6⅛ in., 15.6 cm

PROVENANCE

Spink & Son, Ltd, London.
Collection of David B. Peck, Chicago.
Weisbrod Chinese Art, Ltd., New York, 1998.

$ 8,000-12,000

Spink Son Ltd 1998
David B Peck
Weisbrod Chinese Art Ltd