A MAGNIFICENT PAIR OF LARGE IMPERIAL CLOISONNE ENAMEL CENSERS AND COVERS QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) The bodies of leys jar form, each elaborately enamelled with colourful bats in flight amidst scrolling clouds against a bright turquoise ground, enriched with gilt-metal medallions of interlaced chilong around the compressed bulbous body and broad trumpet neck, flanked by a pair of gilt handles shaped as wispy clouds and raised on three blade feet terminating in dragon heads, the domed cover similarly decorated with pierced gilt-metal dragon medallions and a pierced cloud-scroll finial 38 1/2 in. (98 cm.) high (2)
A MAGNIFICENT PAIR OF LARGE IMPERIAL CLOISONNE ENAMEL CENSERS AND COVERS QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) The bodies of leys jar form, each elaborately enamelled with colourful bats in flight amidst scrolling clouds against a bright turquoise ground, enriched with gilt-metal medallions of interlaced chilong around the compressed bulbous body and broad trumpet neck, flanked by a pair of gilt handles shaped as wispy clouds and raised on three blade feet terminating in dragon heads, the domed cover similarly decorated with pierced gilt-metal dragon medallions and a pierced cloud-scroll finial 38 1/2 in. (98 cm.) high (2)
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