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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
Closed Auction