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Lot *520

A FINE AND RARE PEACOCK GREEN-GLAZED TRIPOD PORCELAIN CENSER

Estimated Value:

4.000 € - 6.000 €

Schätzpreis:

Description:

China, Qianlong seal mark and possibly of the period
D. 18,4 cm
Swedish private collection, assembled in the 1950s and 60s by repute
An imitation gold-splashed bronze tripod bowl of similar shape is illustrated by J. Ayers in Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, vol. 2, Geneva, 1999, pl. 254. A larger bowl with gold decoration on a teadust ground, with lotus-petal decoration, in the Imperial Collection and now in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is included in Illustrated catalogue of Ch'ing Dynasty Porcelain, Ch'ien-lung Ware and Other Wares, Tokyo, 1981, pl. 78
Minor wear to the glaze