A RARE DOUBLE LOZENGE-FORM PART-GILT CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL CENSER

Estimated Value:

1.500 € - 2.500 €

Result:

9.712 € incl. Premium and VAT

Description:

China, Qianlong period
L. 22 cm
The double-lozenge form vessel is decorated to each side with stylised lotos blooms and flanked on both sides with a scrolling handle. The cover is further decorated in openwork with clouds.
Bavarian private collection, bought by the father of the previous owner from Ludwig Bretschneider, Munich, by repute from the collection of Anton Exner (1882 - 1952), Vienna
A similar larger lozenge-form cloisonné censer from the collection of the Springfield Museum of Art was sold at Christie’s Hongkong, ‚Imperial Glories from the Springfield Museums Collection‘, 30.11.2020, lot 2903 which is published by Oskar Münsterberg, Chinesische Kunstgeschichte, vol. II, Esslingen, 1912, p. 466, fig. 652 and see also ‚Chinese Incense Burners - Collection of Steven Hung & Lindy Chern‘, National Museum of History, Taipei, April 2000, p. 66, no. 39 for a very similar censer - Small, partly filled losses to enamel, minor wear

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