A cloisonné enamel 'lotus' tripod censer, Mark and period of Qianlong

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the base incised with a four-character mark and gao character within a square Width 11.5 cm, 4½ in The additional gao (lit. 'high') character below the reign mark is believed to derive from the Chinese classic Qianziwen, 'The One Thousand Word Essay', and was used by the Imperial workshops to identify and locate pieces as part of larger palace assemblages. Compare a closely related pair of censers numbered jun and jing from the Collection of David B. Peck III sold at Christie's New York, 18th September 2014, lots 615 and 616; and another of han mark sold in these rooms, 16th June 2022, lot 41.

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