Thank you for registering for our auction! You are required to provide: 1. Deposit; 保证金待商议； 2. Copy or images of ID card (front and back) or Passport 3. Images of Credit card (front and back).
of compressed globular form rising to a waisted neck and everted rim surmounted by upright loop handles, supported on three cylindrical legs, the exterior with three high-relief taotie masks separated by vertical ff anges above a ground of leiwen with slightly raised centers all between narrow upper and lower bands, the masks, ff anges, and bands gilt, the walls and legs cast hollow, with a six-character seal mark incised to the base Dingfu Xingyouhengtang zhenshang (installed in the [Prince’s] o% cial residence, the Hall of Constancy, to be treasured and enjoyed)
Height 6? in., 17.1 cm
PROVENANCE
Collection of Philip Edward Howard (1929-2016).
The Xingyouhengtang (‘Hall of Constancy’) seal mark identifi es the censer as having belonged to the Fifth Prince Ding, Zaiquan of the Qing dynasty. Xingyouhengtang was the prince’s main residence in the Forbidden City. Zaiquan was the great-greatgrandson of the Qianlong Emperor and had a distinguished career in the service of the court until his death in 1854. The prince was a keen art collector and appears to have made it a habit to have his hall mark inscribed on his artifacts. His collector’s seal with the same six-character inscription appears on a Yuan dynasty painting by Qian Xuan titled Laiqin zhizi tu (Crabapple and Gardenia), now in the collection of the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution. For his biography see Arthur W. Hummel, Eminent Chinese of the Ch’ing Period, Taipei, 1991, pp. 728–729.
清道光 / 咸豐 銀局部鎏金饕餮紋鼎式爐
《定府行有恒堂珍賞》款
來源
Philip Edward Howard (1929-2016) 收藏
