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PROPERTY FROM THE SPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS, SOLD TO SUPPORT ART
ACQUISITIONS AND COLLECTIONS CARE
916
A SUPERB CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL TRIPOD CENSER, COVER AND
STAND
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
The body of the censer is enameled with confronted archaistic dragons
centered and divided by notched flanges, and is raised on three tall curved
legs emerging from stylized gilt animal heads. The domed cover is decorated
with stylized bats alternating with lotus blossoms on foliate scrolls, below four
reticulated ruyi-shaped gilt panels, and the reticulated gilt-bronze dragon finial.
The censer is supported by a separate stand in the form of three conjoined ruyi
heads enameled with lotus and centered by a domed floret.
14º in. (36.2 cm.) high overall (3)
$100,000-150,000
PROVENANCE:
George Walter Vincent Smith (1832-1923), Springfield, Massachusetts,
acquired prior to 1910.
EXHIBITED:
Springfield, Massachusetts, George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Style
and Symbol: Chinese Cloisonnéfrom the Permanent Collection, 2000-2001.
New York, Bard Graduate Center, Cloisonné: Chinese Enamels from the Yuan,
Ming and Qing Dynasties, 26 January – 17 April 2011.
LITERATURE:
H. Münsterberg, Chinesische Kunstgeschichte, Esslingen, 1910-12, p. 465, fig. 650.
B. Quette (ed.), Cloisonné Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming and Qing
Dynasties, Bard Graduate Center, New York, 2011, p. 263, no. 77.
斯普菲博物館珍藏，拍賣收益將用於藏品購藏及維護
清乾隆 掐絲琺瑯仿古龍紋三足蓋爐連座
來源:
史喬沃先生（1832-1923），斯普林菲爾德，麻薩諸塞州，入藏於1910年以前。
展覽:
斯普林菲爾德， 麻薩諸塞州，史喬沃藝術博物館 (斯普菲博物館前身)， Style and
Symbol: Chinese Cloisonné from the Permanent Collection， 2000-2001
年。
紐約，Bard Graduate Center，Cloisonné: Chinese Enamels from the
Yuan，Ming and Qing Dynasties，2011年1月26日至4月17日。
出版:
H. Münsterberg，《Chinesische Kunstgeschichte》， 埃斯林根， 1910-12年，
頁465， 圖版 650。
B. Quette (編)，《Cloisonné Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming and Qing
Dynasties》， Bard Graduate Center， 紐約， 2011年， 頁263， 圖版77。

The current censer and the cloisonné vase, lot 928, on exhibit in the George Walter
Vincent Smith Art Museum, circa 1896. Photographer unknown.
此件掐絲琺瑯三足蓋爐及是次拍品928號掐絲琺瑯六方瓶於1896年前後在史喬沃美
術館展覽。
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