A large lime-green-ground famille-rose 'bajixiang' tripod censer

Daoguang mark and period

清道光 綠地粉彩纏枝蓮八吉祥紋朝冠耳三足爐

《大清道光年製》《善緣庵》《九江關監督德順敬獻》款

the globular body brightly enameled with the 'Eight Buddhist Emblems' amidst meandering lotus scrolls extending onto the cabriole legs, the shoulder with a band of ruyi heads, flanked by a pair of pierced, upright curved handles decorated with lotus blossoms and bats, the waisted neck similarly decorated with lotus scrolls, all below a galleried rim with a pink and blue keyfret border interrupted by two horizontal cartouches on either side enclosing the six-character mark and three characters reading Shanyuanan (Shanyuan temple) in iron red, the underside with an inscription translating to 'respectively donated by De Shun, Supervisor of the Jiujiang Custom', the interior enameled turquoise

Height 16 ? in., 42.2 cm

Collection of an American missionary, acquired in China.

American Private Collection, received as a gift from the above by 1947, and thence by descent.

來源

美國傳教士收藏，得於中國

美國私人收藏，獲贈於上述處，於1947年已入藏，此後家族傳承