A Small Chinese Cloisonne Censer with Reticulated Cover

Qianlong period (1736-95), turquoise ground with lotus blossoms and scrolling tendrils in colorful enamels, a small censer with gilt bronze reticulated cover decorated with bats flying amidst swirling clouds topped with a sleeping elephant, main body with ruyi border in lapis blue encircles the rim, gilt elephant head handles flank the body, raised on three similar gilt elephant head feet

3 3/8 in.

Collection of Michael and Ingrid Kelly, Worldwide Gallery Antiques, Fredericksburg, Virginia

Good estate condition; a line to one area of rim; tarnish and wear to gilt.