Rare brûle-parfum en bronze doré et émaux cloisonnés Chine, dynastie Qing, époque Qianlong

en forme de pigeon, dressé sur ses pattes, la poitrine bombée et la tête tournée légèrement vers la gauche, la tête bleu foncé et le corps vert, les ailes et le dos formant un couvercle amovible, les ailes stylisées aux contours soulignés en bronze doré aux plumes chatoyantes bleu, vert et rouge ; avec un autre brûle-parfum en bronze doré et émaux cloisonnés en forme de pigeon, Chine (4)

Both pigeons with overall minor losses to the enamels along the edges, some later filled in. There is overall light wear to the holding. The eyes are inlaid with glass cabochons, the legs on the main pigeon may have been reattached or reinforced where they join the body. The colours are vibrant.
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Compare with a similar pair of pigeon-shaped censers in the Uldry Collection, illustrated in Helmut Brinker and Albert Lutz, Chinese Cloisonné. The Pierre Uldry Collection, New York, 1989, cat. no. 324.