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356 A LARGE 清康熙 素三彩浮雕八仙紋獅耳爐
SANCAI-GLAZED
‘IMMORTALS’
CENSER

Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period
of bombé form supported on a splayed The present censer is an unusually large and 來源
foot, the rounded sides applied in high relief splendid example of type. Smaller censers, 巴黎佳士得2003年11月19日，編號264
with the Eight Immortals each holding an featuring the same textured surface, applied
identifying attribute, the figures all against figures and liberal application of green,
a splashed-sancai ground vigorously carved yellow and aubergine translucent enamels
simulating rockwork and set with a pair of include an aubergine-ground example from
yellow-enameled lion-mask handles to either the Falk Collection sold at Christie’s New
side, the remainder of the vessel covered with York, 16th October 2001, lot 151; and another,
a bright green glaze, the neck incised with a from the Goldschmidt Collection, exhibited
scrolling meander, the figures liberally applied and illustrated in Exhibition of Chinese
with enamels of yellow, green and aubergine Art, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, 1929,
pooling dramatically in the recesses, the base cat. no. 695. See also another of this type,
unglazed revealing the pale buff-colored body, formerly in the Eumorfopoulos Collection,
coll. no. 1601 now in the British Museum, London, acc. no.
Width across handles 9 in., 22.9 cm 1937,0716.102.

PROVENANCE
Christie’s Paris, 19th November 2003, lot 264.

$ 12,000-15,000

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