A large cloisonné enamel incense burner. 19th century or later - image-1
A large cloisonné enamel incense burner. 19th century or later - image-2
A large cloisonné enamel incense burner. 19th century or later - image-1A large cloisonné enamel incense burner. 19th century or later - image-2

Lot 306 Dα

A large cloisonné enamel incense burner. 19th century or later

Auction 1061 - overview Cologne
04.12.2015, 14:00 - Asian Art II - Chinese Paintings, Decorative Arts, Porcelain and Ceramics
Estimate: 3.000 € - 5.000 €
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A large cloisonné enamel incense burner. 19th century or later

A large cloisonné enamel incense burner, the cabriole legs surmounted by an octagonal body with a bell-shaped lid with shou medallions in openwork and ornamental handles, all displaying lotus, scrolls and archaistic patterns on a blue ground. Ruyi-shaped plaques with lotus and scrolls in champlevé enamels attached to the legs and handles, the plaque to the handles with clouds and shou medallions probably replaced. 19th century or later.
Height 55.7 cm

清19世紀 銅胎掐絲法瑯壽纏枝蓮紋八方蓋爐
來源：德國柏林私人收藏

Provenance

Private collection, Berlin

Literature

Compare an almost identical piece in the Brooklyn Museum, illustrated in: J. Getz, Catalogue of the Avery Collection of Ancient Chinese Cloisonnés, Brooklyn, New York 1912, no. 1, plate 1, dated Daoguang period (1821-1850), and in: B. Quette (ed.), Cloisonné, Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties, New York 2011, fig. 3.50 and cat. no. 144, p. 298, dated Qianlong period