A Rare Cloisonne Enamel Tripod Censer

MING DYNASTY, FIRST HALF 15TH CENTURY

细节

A Rare Cloisonne Enamel Tripod Censer
Ming dynasty, first half 15th century
The compressed globular body raised on three cabriole legs decorated with a leafy lotus bud spray, and encircled by a frieze of lotus meander below a narrow band of clouds alternating with applied roundels decorated with a whorl pattern, with a pair of upright inward-curving handles pierced by a vertical slot and decorated in red, blue and dark green champlevé enamel with narrow feather-like linear designs, all in dark blue, yellow, red, dark green and white on a turquoise ground, the gilt-bronze base undecorated
7½in. (19cm.) across handles, stand and box

拍品专文

The decoration on this incense burner is similar to that found on three published covered examples. One from the Kitson Collection illustrated by Sir Harry Garner, Chinese and Japanese Cloisonné Enamels, London, 1962, pl. 19A; one from the Garner Collection illustrated by R. S. Jenyns and W. Watson, Chinese Art, The Minor Arts, London, 1963, col. pl. 76; and another, see Brinker and A. Lutz, Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry Collection, Zurich, 1989, col. pl. 13. See, also, the related censer with cover sold in our London rooms, 16 November 1998, lot 3. Related vessels with a key-fret border rather than a cloud and roundel border below the rim are illustrated in the aforementioned volumes: Garner, pl. 17A; Jenyns and Watson, col. pl. 75 and Brinker and Lutz, col. pl. 15; and another was sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 2 November 1999, lot 799.