A RARE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL INCENSE BURNERWanli six-character mark and of the periodThe bombé body brightly enamelled with stylised chrysanthemums on a turquoise-blue ground, on two sides with a roundel containing the trigramqian above a bat, the mouthrim encircled by a band of archaistic key-frets, flanked with a pair of gilt handles, the base enamelled in red with a six-character reign mark on green ground within a rectangle, supported on three cylindrical legs issuing from beast masks.18cm (7 1/8in) wideProvenance: 明萬曆 掐絲琺瑯纏枝菊紋三足爐「大明萬曆年造」六字楷書款Compare the shape and the archaistic key-fret band below the mouthrim on the present incense burner to an example in the Qing Court Collection, illustrated inCompendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Enamels 1, Beijing, 2011, no.100. See three examples of Wanli cloisonné enamel wares with related six-character mark in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated inibid., nos.104-106.pare also the mark on a large Wanli mark and period dish sold at Christie's Paris, 16 December 2022, lot 50.短直頸，頸部飾拐子紋一周，有紅黃藍之色，圓鼓腹，兩側鑄橋耳，腹部藍地，飾纏枝菊瓣紋，菊花有紅黃藍白四色，每朵菊瓣分兩層三色，枝葉填綠彩，一面正中飾黃彩青地「乾」卦，下腹承三立體獸面，下承三足，爐底長方形開光內署「大明萬曆年造」六字掐絲琺瑯楷書款，綠地朱字，掐絲及露胎處鎏金。此件爐身器型和頸部拐子紋與北京故宮藏一件明萬曆萬壽如意紋象足爐可互為參照，見《故宮博物院藏品大系：琺瑯器篇1》，北京，2011年，編號100。有明一代掐絲琺瑯署款者唯宣德、景泰、嘉靖、萬曆四朝，宣德、景泰寄託款較多，蓋因萬曆款多為雙鉤掐絲琺瑯款，為做器時一併燒成，難以舊器加新款。北京故宮博物院藏一件明萬曆掐絲琺瑯纏枝花卉紋圓盒、一件菊花紋圓盒、一件雲鶴紋圓盒之款識與本件完全一致，皆是長方形深綠地掐如意雲頭紋，內署雙鉤楷書填紅彩，見前書，編號104-106。佳士得巴黎2022年12月16日售出一明萬曆纏枝花卉紋大盤之款識與本件亦屬同類，拍品50。