A LARGE CLOISONNE ENAMEL CENSER, FANGDING

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A LARGE CLOISONNE ENAMEL CENSER, FANGDING
QIANLONG

The censer raised on four cylindrical legs supporting the rectangular body, each of the four sides finely enamelled with a taotie mask above a pair of confronted kui dragons, all four corners and the broad facing sides divided by vertical flanges, the strap handles formed on the wide mouthrim flanking the stepped cover decorated with pairs of bats inbetween circular symbols below a band of pierced angular scrollwork, surmounted by a Buddhist lion finial (minor enamel losses infilled)
17 1/8 in. (43.2 cm.) high, wood stand

Lot Essay

For a number of similar variations using the same decorative theme but with blade-shaped legs, cf. a fangding censer from the Clague Collection, illustrated in Chinese Cloisonne, pl. 41; an example decorated with abstract taotie-masks illustrated by G. Getz, Catalogue of the Avery Collection of Ancient Chinese Cloisonnes, Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1912, no. 81; and another illustrated by Dr Gunhild Gabbert Avitabile, Die Ware aus dem Teufelsland, 1981, no. 79. Compare also a fangding with a waisted neck sold in these Rooms, 29 September 1992, lot 888.

(US$26,000-39,000)

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