A RARE CLOISONNE ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE TRIPOD ELEPHANT CENSER QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD heavily cast with deep rounded sides supported on three gilt-bronze elephant-head feet, each with long curled tusks and bejewelled harnesses, flanked at the sides by a pair of elephant-heads, their upturned trunks forming the handles, the body decorated in bright cloisonné enamels with two medallions each enclosing a shou character flanked by a pair of bats and surrounded by dense scrolling lotus blooms below a ruyi head border, the domed cover with three ruyi shaped panels similarly decorated with scrolling lotus blooms, all surrounded by finely and intricately cast gilt openwork with further scrolling lotus, surmounted by a naturalistically rendered recumbent elephant richly adorned across the body with a bejewelled harness and beaded garlands embellished with multi-coloured hardstones, with an enamel decorated saddle draped over its back supporting the gilt-bronze finial cast as a small offering bowl with an ornately decorated gilt-bronze cover height 55cm., 21 ¾ in.
A RARE CLOISONNE ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE TRIPOD ELEPHANT CENSER QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD heavily cast with deep rounded sides supported on three gilt-bronze elephant-head feet, each with long curled tusks and bejewelled harnesses, flanked at the sides by a pair of elephant-heads, their upturned trunks forming the handles, the body decorated in bright cloisonné enamels with two medallions each enclosing a shou character flanked by a pair of bats and surrounded by dense scrolling lotus blooms below a ruyi head border, the domed cover with three ruyi shaped panels similarly decorated with scrolling lotus blooms, all surrounded by finely and intricately cast gilt openwork with further scrolling lotus, surmounted by a naturalistically rendered recumbent elephant richly adorned across the body with a bejewelled harness and beaded garlands embellished with multi-coloured hardstones, with an enamel decorated saddle draped over its back supporting the gilt-bronze finial cast as a small offering bowl with an ornately decorated gilt-bronze cover height 55cm., 21 ¾ in.
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