A RARE CLOISONNE ENAMEL ARCHAISTIC CENSER AND COVER QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) The censer is colourfully decorated in yellow, green, purple, red, pink and blue on a turquoise ground with a taotie mask on each side of the mid-section, flanked by upright handles terminating in gilt animal masks. The bombé lower section is decorated with further abstract taotie masks on each corner, supported on four tapering cylindrical legs, and the waisted upper section with stylised kui motifs rising to a pair of upright loop handles. Each section is separated by a keyfret band. The cover is pierced with a band of gilt interlocking ruyi-clouds between keyfret patterns enamelled in blue and turquoise, and surmounted by a gilt openwork finial in the form of egrets amidst lotus flowers, leaves and stalks arising from undulating waves. 19 in. (48 cm.) high Provenance Sold at Christie's New York, 27 November 1991, no. 67 Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman Christopher Bruckner, Asian Art Gallery, London
A RARE CLOISONNE ENAMEL ARCHAISTIC CENSER AND COVER QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) The censer is colourfully decorated in yellow, green, purple, red, pink and blue on a turquoise ground with a taotie mask on each side of the mid-section, flanked by upright handles terminating in gilt animal masks. The bombé lower section is decorated with further abstract taotie masks on each corner, supported on four tapering cylindrical legs, and the waisted upper section with stylised kui motifs rising to a pair of upright loop handles. Each section is separated by a keyfret band. The cover is pierced with a band of gilt interlocking ruyi-clouds between keyfret patterns enamelled in blue and turquoise, and surmounted by a gilt openwork finial in the form of egrets amidst lotus flowers, leaves and stalks arising from undulating waves. 19 in. (48 cm.) high Provenance Sold at Christie's New York, 27 November 1991, no. 67 Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman Christopher Bruckner, Asian Art Gallery, London
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