Mounted Porcelain & Lacquer Incense Burner. Porcelain: China, Kangxi Period (1662-1722), gilt-bronze & Japanese lacquer: 18th century. Photo courtesy Vanderven Oriental Art.

Height: 25cm Width: 15cm.

An enamel on biscuit horse mounted on a gilt bronze base of curling leaves. On its back, gilt bronze leafy oak branches, support a Japanese red lacquer bowl and cover mounted as an incense burner. The top of the cover is surmounted with a coral branch with a bronze base.

Provenance: Private Collection UK

Literature: Pierre Kjellberg, Object Montés du Moyen Age a Nos Jours, Paris, 2000, p.73
D.F. Lunsingh-Scheurleer, Chinesische und japanische Porzellaan in europaïschen Fassungen, Braunschweig, 1980, pl.358 & 365
William Sargent, Treasures of Chinese Export Porcelain, Peabody Essex Museum, 2012 pl.257
Francis Watson, Chinese Porcelains in European Mounts, Exhibition Catalogue China Institute in America, 1980

Vanderven Oriental Art. MasterArt at TEFAF 2014 on stand 814. 14-23 march 2014 - http://www.masterart.com/