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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION
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A RARE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE TRIPOD CENSER WITH
ELEPHANT FEET
MING DYNASTY, 15TH-16TH CENTURY
The censer is finely decorated in bright enamels with large red, yellow, white, turquoise and blue
lotus heads on scrolling leafy stems. It is supported on a gilt bronze stand with three gilt bronze
elephant-head feet. Each handle is skillfully cast as a mythical beast, its head turned back over its
body, decorated in champleve enamels. The base is cast with a four-character Jingtai mark within a
recessed rectangle.
8 7/8 in. (22.7 cm.) diam.
£10,000-15,000 US$13,000-19,000
€11,000-16,000
PROVENANCE:
Acquired in Germany before 1989
The current lot may be stylistically compared to the 15th century tripod censer with champleve
enamel mythical beast handles and gilt bronze elephant head feet in the George Walter Vincent
Smith Art Museum, Springfield, Mass. no. 63.23.150, illustrated in Cloisonné, Chinese Enamels from
the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, Beatrice Quette (Ed.), 2011, no. 123, p.287.

(detail) 重要歐洲私人珍藏
明十五/十六世紀 掐絲琺瑯纏枝花卉紋鎏金象腿三足爐
來源:
於1989年前購自德國

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