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A LARGE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL CENSER, FANGDING
MING DYNASTY, 16TH-17TH CENTURY
The censer has twin upright handles and is decorated to each side in bright A similar example is illustrated in Avitabile, Die Ware aus dem Teufelsland:
enamels with a bold design of a taotie mask below a pair of confronting Chinesische und japanische Cloisonné - und - Champlevé Arbeiten von 1400
kui dragons divided by a vertical flange. The cover is bordered by a band of bis 1900, no. 17, p. 62-3; and Lin, Chinese Incense Burners: Collection of
scrolling lotus below a finely worked reticulated gilt metal panel of confronting
Steven Hung and Lindy Chern, no. 13, p. 45.
dragons chasing the flaming pearl. The cover is surmounted by a Buddhist lion
dog. The base has a double vajra medallion with the Eight Trigrams encircling
重要歐洲私人珍藏
a yin-yang symbol. The censer is supported on four elephant-head blade legs.
123/4 in. (32.4 cm.) high 明十六/十七世紀 掐絲琺瑯饕餮夔龍紋出戟方鼎
£30,000-50,000 US$39,000-64,000 來源:
€33,000-55,000 於1989年前購自德國
PROVENANCE: 出版:
Acquired in Germany before 1989. Gunhild Gabbert Avitabile博士《Die Ware aus dem Teufelsland, Chinesische und japanische
Cloisonné – und Champlevé-Arbeiten von 1400 bis 1900》德國, 1981年, 62頁, 編號17
LITERATURE:
Dr. Gunhild Gabbert Avitabile, Die Ware aus dem Teufelsland, Chinesische und
japanische Cloisonné – und Champlevé-Arbeiten von 1400 bis 1900, Germany,
1981, p. 62, cat. no. 17

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