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PROPERTY FROM A NEW JERSEY PRIVATE
COLLECTION

A PINK-GROUND FAMILLE-ROSE
TRIPOD CENSER
DAOGUANG SEAL MARK AND
PERIOD

decorated around the exterior with the ‘Eight
Buddhist Emblems’, the rim centered with a
six-character seal mark in iron red, the interior
enameled turquoise, wood stand (2)
Height 15 in., 38.2 cm
PROVENANCE
Acquired by the father of the present owner in
the 1960s.
This imposing and brilliantly enameled incense
burner was most likely the centerpiece for a

ve-piece altar garniture, anked by a pair of
candlesticks and gu vases. Of ding form, based on
the shape of archaic ritual vessels of the Shang
dynasty, its cauldron-like shape supported on
three curved legs re ects the predilection in the
Qing dynasty for vessels in the form of archaic
bronzes of the Shang and Zhou dynasties.
Although altar wares could be manufactured
in a variety of materials and interpretations of
the oral scroll motif, the original pro le of the
archaic models was retained.
Compare a pink-ground censer of the same
design and period, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong,
28th April 1997, lot 774.
$ 6,000-8,000

1960

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