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

Estimate:£200

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