Lot 486.  A lime-green-ground famille-rose tripod censer, Jiaqing seal mark and period (1796-1820).  Height 12 7/8  in., 32.6 cm. Estimate 15,000 - 20,000 USD. Lot sold 37,500 USD. Photo: Sotheby's 2014.

the globular body enameled with the bajixiang (Eight Buddhist Emblems) amidst meandering lotus scrolls that extend onto the cabriole legs, the shoulder with a band of ruyi-heads, flanked by a pair of pierced, upright curved handles, the lotus scrolls repeated on the waisted neck, all below a galleried rim with a pink and blue key-fret border interrupted by the horizontal six-character mark in iron-red, the interior enameled in turquoise, wood stand and cover (3).

Provenance: China during the early 20th century, and thence by descent.

Note: A pair of altar vases with a similar pattern and color was sold in these rooms 20th March 2012, lot 92. A similar censer, but of smaller size with a ruby-red ground, with a Jiaqing mark and of the period, also sold in these rooms, 19th March 2013, lot 220.

Sotheby's. FINE CHINESE CERAMICS & WORKS OF ART. 18 MARS 2014 - 19 MARS 2014. NEW YORK