Kavel 136

A very large Chinese cloisonné tripd censer, the cover of tapering shape in three sections, each with four open worked bronze panels of endless knots and lotus, the cover surmounted by a bronze foo-dog with ball, the cloisonné ground depicting lotusses with meanders in between, the bottom part with identical cloisonné decoration and set on three legs shaped as bronze lion heads over cloisonné paws, the underside with a six character mark in bronze in the centre of the lotus and meander cloisonné decoration -H. 65 cm, D. 58,5 cm-