A very large cloisonné enamel incense burner. Late 18th/19th century - image-1
A very large cloisonné enamel incense burner. Late 18th/19th century - image-2
A very large cloisonné enamel incense burner. Late 18th/19th century - image-1A very large cloisonné enamel incense burner. Late 18th/19th century - image-2

Lot 295a Dα

A very large cloisonné enamel incense burner. Late 18th/19th century

Auction 1053 - overview Cologne
03.06.2015, 14:00 - Chinese Decorative Arts, Tibet/Nepal, India, South-East Asia
Estimate: 8.000 € - 10.000 €
Result: 8.060 € (incl. premium)
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A very large cloisonné enamel incense burner. Late 18th/19th century

A very large cloisonné enamel incense burner, the globular body with two large dragon handles resting on three cranes, the neck cast separately and inserted, the domed lid partly in openwork with a high knob surrounded by a dragon, decorated all over with chrysanthemums, peonies, lotus, morning glories and many other flowers on a blue ground, the metal section of gold colour. Extensive restorations. 19th century.
Height 102 cm; width 81 cm

清十九世紀 掐絲琺瑯龍耳三鶴足蓋大爐

Provenance

Privated collection, Rhineland, Germany

Literature

Compare a similar incence burner in the British Museum, London, publ. in: Jane Portal, Later Chinese Cloisonné, in: Orientations, November 1992, p. 75, figure 6 and an incense burner formerly in the Uldry collection publ- in: H. Brinker und A. Lutz, Chinesisches Cloisonné. Die Sammlung Uldry, Zürich 1985, cat. no.. 323