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ANOTHER PROPERTY

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A LARGE YELLOW-GROUND FAMILLE
ROSE TRIPOD CENSER

QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN
IRON RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The censer is sturdily potted and enameled on the
body with the Eight Buddhist Emblems amidst
lotus fowers and tendrils extending onto the
cabriole legs, all beneath a band of ruyi-heads on
the shoulder, and is fanked by a pair of upright
curved handles. The waisted neck is encircled by
foral scroll below a key-fret band on the galleried
rim which is interrupted on one side by the reign
mark inscribed in a horizontal line.
14Ω in. (36.8 cm.) high
$40,000-60,000

Compare the Qianlong mark-and-period tripod
censer of slightly larger size (38.7 cm. high)
with similar decoration, but reserved on a white
ground, from the collection of Dr. Gordon and Dr.
Rosemary Fryer, sold at Christie’s London, 14 May
2013, lot 226.
清乾隆 黃地粉彩八吉祥紋沖耳爐
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