A Three-Piece Imperial Chinese Silver Filigree and Enamel Altar Set: Two Vases and a Censer, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Period, ... (Total: 3 Items)

Description

A Three-Piece Imperial Chinese Silver Filigree and Enamel Altar Set: Two Vases and a Censer, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Period, dated 1750
Marks: Incised Qianlong 15th year mark and of the period, accompanied by presentation inscription Guanyu Zhicun Baowan (An Imperial Piece to Cherish as a Priceless Treasure); Vases marked Qianlong Yuzhi (Made to the Order of Qianlong)
6-3/4 inches high (17.1 cm) (censer)
6-1/8 inches high (15.6 cm) (vases, each)

PROVENANCE:
Braun Collection, Michigan

Ref: Enamel Ware in the Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1999, No. 164.
The suite comprising two vases, each with figural dragon and ring handles, bodies decorated with enameled floral ground interspersed with rounded cartouches depicting phoenixes and dragons, covered tripod censer with bird finial to lid, conforming enamel decoration to lid and dragon handles, raised on four figural feet.

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