A MAGNIFICENT AND LARGE PAIR OF RETICULATED SQUARESECTION CL...

Lot 87
03.11.2020 14:00UTC +00:00
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£ 243 750
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Lot 87 | A MAGNIFICENT AND LARGE PAIR OF RETICULATED SQUARESECTION CL...
Estimate value
£ 40 000 – 60 000
A MAGNIFICENT AND LARGE PAIR OF RETICULATED SQUARESECTION CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL CENSERS AND COVERS

18TH-19TH CENTURY

Each censer is supported on four elephant trunk-form feet with mask-head terminals and each side of the lower section is inset with rectangular gilt metal panels embellished with butterflies, leafy tendrils and melons in champleve enamels. The detachable upper sections have reticulated fretwork gilt metal panels set within a border of bats and clouds below an openwork band of cloisonne enamel lotus scrolls. The covers are similarly decorated with gilt metal 'bat and scrolling lotus' panels embellished with pendant ruyi heads and are surmounted with a square finial decorated with shou characters.

18 ¼ in. (46.5 cm.) high

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