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A LARGE IMPERIAL CLOISONNE ENAMEL RUYI-HANDLED

CENSER

QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

The body of the censer is elaborately decorated to each side with a large lotus bloom
supporting a stylised shou character, amongst scrolling tendrils and below a ruyi border.
The waisted neck is decorated with an archaistic dragon border and further lotus sprays.
The four feet are shaped as stylised dragon heads and adorned with floral roundels. Each
handle is shaped as a stylised ruyi sceptre. The cover is decorated with four ruyi-shaped
panels set against a reticulated ground, surmounted by an openwork foliate finial.
23 Ω in. (60 cm.) high, wood stand

HK$3,000,000-5,000,000 US$390,000-650,000

PROVENANCE

A private family collection, Denmark, prior to 2006

清乾隆 御製掐絲琺瑯連壽紋如意耳薰爐

來源
丹麥私人家族珍藏，入藏於 2006 年前

fig. 1 Collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing fig. 2 Collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing fig. 3 Reproduced with permission of the
圖一 北京故宮博物院藏品 圖二 北京故宮博物院藏品 Brooklyn Museum from the Catalogue of the Avery

Collection of Ancient Chinese Cloisonnes, New
York, 1912, licensed through Bridgeman Images

圖三 布魯克林博物館藏品

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