Live Auction 19039Sacred and Imperial: The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection Part II
A RARE GUAN-TYPE BOMBÉ CENSER
Lot 849

A RARE GUAN-TYPE BOMBÉ CENSER

CHINA, QING DYNASTY, YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

Closed24 September 2020

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A RARE GUAN-TYPE BOMBÉ CENSER
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
With compressed body flanked by a pair of lug handles and raised on a splayed foot, covered overall with a bluish-grey glaze suffused with a golden crackle, the foot covered with a dark brown dressing
5 ¼ in. (13.3 cm.) wide across handles

The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago, acquired prior to 1990.

Specialist note


Yongzheng-marked censers of this elegant form are very rare. A Yongzheng robin’s egg-glazed example with an incised seal mark from the Zande Lou Collection, is illustrated in Qing Imperial Monochromes: The Zande Lou Collection, Hong Kong, 2005, pp. 78-79, no. 22. Another Yongzheng robin’s egg-glazed example was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 26 November 2014, lot 2950. A Qianlong Ru-type censer of similar form and size in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is illustrated in Qingdai danseyou ciqi tezhan (A Special Exhibition of Qing Monochrome Glazed Porcelain), Taipei, 1981, no. 87.