Auction 159 Asian Art

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An Iron-Red and Grisaille Porcelain Censer with the Eighteen Luohan


Estimate

400 - 600


Session

8 May 2026


Description

China, Qing Dynasty, 19th century

Of compressed globular form with a short neck, everted rim and brown-dressed edge

The body decorated in grisaille and iron-red with a continuous frieze of the Eighteen Luohan (Shiba Luohan), each depicted in various poses with their characteristic attributes, rendered in fine expressive lines amidst stylised clouds and landscape elements

he base bearing an iron-red four-character hall mark reading Caihua Tang zhi (彩華堂製)



清十九世纪 墨彩描金十八罗汉图香炉 「彩華堂製」款

Diam.: 13 cm



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