A BRILLIANTLY ENAMELLED FAMILLE-ROSE 'EIGHT BUDDHIST EMBLEMS' TRIPOD INCENSE BURNER SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF JIAQING

the globular body rising from three cabriole legs to a cylindrical neck with galleried rim, set with a pair of upright curved handles each pierced with a rectangular aperture, the body brightly painted with the beribboned bajixiang ('Eight Buddhist Emblems') interspersed with stylised lotus sprays, all below a band of ruyi heads around the shoulder, the neck, handles and legs similarly decorated with stylised lotus blooms borne on leafy tendrils, encircled by keyfret bands at the rim, the side of the handles and the feet, the rim with a gilt rectangular cartouche inscribed in iron-red with a six-character seal mark

A private English collection.

Apart from clean breaks to the handles, the incense burner is in good condition. The enamels are in a good state of preservation, particularly strong and vivid. There is minor surface wear throughout, and slight rubbing to the gilding at the extremities. Minor retouching to small areas of the feet went the glaze had fitted. The break on the left handle is at the bottom of the handle, a clean break through the pink scrollwork. The breaks on the right handle are at the bottom of the handle, through the pink scrollwork, and near the top, through the yellow scrollwork, with minor retouching.
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Another famille-rose incense burner of this form and design is illustrated by Gunhild Avitabile, From the Dragon's Treasure - Vom Schatz Der Drachen. Chinese Porcelain From the 19th and 20th Centuries in the Weishaupt Collection, London, 1987, cat. no. 5.