A CHINESE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL CENSER
A CHINESE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL CENSER
late 19th or early 20th Century, of compressed globular form, the black ground worked throughout with gilt wire scrolls and decorated with peony and blossoming branches, beneath a band of ruyi lappets and a key fret collar upon a blue ground, the shoulders applied with gilt bronze beast mask handles suspending loose rings, upon three gilt bronze beast mask and paw feet, the domed and pierced gilt bronze cover inset with cloisonné panels of blossom and surmounted by a Buddhistic lion, the base with a turquoise ground medallion of a chrysanthemum amid scattered flowers. 17cm high
There is a loss to one of the white flower heads to the cover. A shallow dent to the body of the base. The censer stands well on the three feet and does not wobble.
A CHINESE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL CENSER
late 19th or early 20th Century, of compressed globular form, the black ground worked throughout with gilt wire scrolls and decorated with peony and blossoming branches, beneath a band of ruyi lappets and a key fret collar upon a blue ground, the shoulders applied with gilt bronze beast mask handles suspending loose rings, upon three gilt bronze beast mask and paw feet, the domed and pierced gilt bronze cover inset with cloisonné panels of blossom and surmounted by a Buddhistic lion, the base with a turquoise ground medallion of a chrysanthemum amid scattered flowers. 17cm high
There is a loss to one of the white flower heads to the cover. A shallow dent to the body of the base. The censer stands well on the three feet and does not wobble.
