A CHINESE TROMPE L'OEIL MOULDED CENSER AND COVER

Qing Dynasty

清 仿掐絲琺瑯三足龍紋香爐連蓋

《大清乾隆年製》款

Of compressed form and raised on a trio of beast-form legs, the exterior moulded to simulate cloisonné enamel depicting dragons flying amidst swirling clouds on a mottled turquoise ground, the base with a six-character Qianlong mark highlighted in gilt, topped with a pierced cover surmounted by a finial moulded as a chilong, raised on a fitted wood stand

17cm wide, 594g

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THIS LOT IS OFFERED WITH NO RESERVE

無底價

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PROVENANCE:

English private collection, thence by descent

來源：

英國私人收藏，此後家族傳承

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C.f. A related 'imitation bronze' censer, dated to the Qing Dynasty and being of fang ding form, was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 11 Oct 2017, lot 390 (HKD 81,250), and one with a similar archaistic design was formerly in the Qing Court collection, now in the Shenyang Museum and illustrated in 'The Prime Cultural Relics Collected by Shenyang Imperial Palace Museum', Shenyang, 2007, p. 212.

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