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Auction archive: Lot number 2903

A MASSIVE CLOISONNE ENAMEL DOUBLE-LOZENGE FORM CENSER AND COVER

Estimate
HK$600,000 - HK$800,000
ca. US$77,393 - US$103,191
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 2903

A MASSIVE CLOISONNE ENAMEL DOUBLE-LOZENGE FORM CENSER AND COVER

Estimate
HK$600,000 - HK$800,000
ca. US$77,393 - US$103,191
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

A MASSIVE CLOISONNE ENAMEL DOUBLE-LOZENGE FORM CENSER AND COVER QING DYNASTY, 18TH-EARLY 19TH CENTURY The censer is cast in the form of a double-lozenge and decorated on the exterior with four shou characters surrounded by the Eight Buddhist Emblems and the Eight Daoist Emblems supported on lotus sprays, interspersed by further precious objects. The censer is flanked by a pair gilt-bronze ribbon-form handles on either side and supported on four gilt-bronze humanoid legs. The fitted cover has reticulated panels featuring bats amid clouds below a gilt-bronze ribbon-form finial. 26 1/2 in. (67.5 cm.) wide Provenance George Walter Vincent Smith (1832-1923), Springfield, Massachusetts, acquired prior to 1910

Auction archive: Lot number 2903
Auction:
Datum:
30 Nov 2020
Auction house:
Christie's
King Street, St. James's 8
London, SW1Y 6QT
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7839 9060
+44 (0)20 73892869
Beschreibung:

A MASSIVE CLOISONNE ENAMEL DOUBLE-LOZENGE FORM CENSER AND COVER QING DYNASTY, 18TH-EARLY 19TH CENTURY The censer is cast in the form of a double-lozenge and decorated on the exterior with four shou characters surrounded by the Eight Buddhist Emblems and the Eight Daoist Emblems supported on lotus sprays, interspersed by further precious objects. The censer is flanked by a pair gilt-bronze ribbon-form handles on either side and supported on four gilt-bronze humanoid legs. The fitted cover has reticulated panels featuring bats amid clouds below a gilt-bronze ribbon-form finial. 26 1/2 in. (67.5 cm.) wide Provenance George Walter Vincent Smith (1832-1923), Springfield, Massachusetts, acquired prior to 1910

Auction archive: Lot number 2903
Auction:
Datum:
30 Nov 2020
Auction house:
Christie's
King Street, St. James's 8
London, SW1Y 6QT
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7839 9060
+44 (0)20 73892869
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