A RARE LARGE IMPERIAL CLOISONNE ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE CENSER, GUI

细节

A RARE LARGE IMPERIAL CLOISONNE ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE CENSER, GUI
QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD

Of archaic bronze form with a pair of gilt animal mask handles, the compressed globular body finely enamelled with an Indian lotus meander issuing multi-coloured blossoms and scrolling gilt tendrils on a dark blue ground, between borders of floral-sprays on a turquoise ground, minor pitting to enamels
13 in. (33 cm.) across handle

拍品专文

Compare with an early eighteenth century archaistic gui type vessel with similar decoration and an apocryphal Jingtai mark illustrated by Brinker and Lutz, Chinese Cloisonn, The Pierre Uldry Collection, pl. 252, where the authors noted that the use of the Jingtai mark on this example suggested that incense vessels in the style of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were copied in the eighteenth century. A fifteenth century prototype is also illustrated ibid, pl. 27, and shares similarities with the present lot.

(US$70,000-90,000)