A Chinese Cloisonné Enamel Incense Burner, Qianlong Period Mark and Period
清乾隆銅胎掐絲琺瑯纏枝蓮三足爐 ’乾隆年製·千‘款

Qianlong Period (1735-1796)

The compressed body raised on three shaped supports, with twin loop handles, decorated with a leafy lotus scroll picked out in red and white, amidst dense scrolling leaves, below a ruyi-head border, the underside inscribed with the four-character mark in a line above a fifth character, qian.

Height 2 15/16 x Diameter 4 5/16 in., 7.5 x 11 cm.

Property from the Estate of Dan Parmalee Eells (1825–1903), thence by descent.

This lot is located in New York.

Provenance:

Property from the Estate of Dan Parmalee Eells (1825-1903), thence by descent.

A leading banker and financier of Cleveland, Dan Parmelee Eells rose from bookkeeper at the State Bank of Ohio in 1849 to president of the Commercial National Bank, a position he held from 1868 until his retirement in 1897. Over the course of his career, he served as a director of more than thirty firms, with wide-ranging interests in oil, iron, steel, cement, gas, and railroads.

Prominent in civic and religious life, Eells was a trustee of several colleges, president of the Cleveland YMCA and Bible Society, and treasurer of charitable institutions including the Protestant Orphans’ Asylum, the Home for Aged Women, the Children’s Aid Society, and the Bethel Union.

來源：

Dan Parmalee Eells (1825-1903)先生遺產，后家族傳承。

Dan Parmelee Eells係俄亥俄州克里夫蘭市知名的銀行家。1849年以俄亥俄州立銀行的簿記員起步，最終在1868年出任商業國家銀行（Commercial National Bank）總裁，直至1897年退休。職業生涯中曾擔任三十餘家公司董事，業務涵蓋石油、鋼鐵、水泥、燃氣與鐵路等諸多領域。

他在公共與宗教事務上同樣活躍，曾任多所高校校董，兼克里夫蘭基督教青年會（YMCA）與聖經協會會長。他還是多個慈善機構的財務主管，諸如新教孤兒院、婦女養老院、兒童援助協會與伯特利聯盟等。

A Chinese Cloisonné Enamel Incense Burner, Qianlong Period Mark and Period清乾隆 銅胎掐絲琺瑯纏枝蓮三足爐 ’乾隆年製·千‘款

A Chinese Cloisonné Enamel Incense Burner, Qianlong Period Mark and Period
清乾隆銅胎掐絲琺瑯纏枝蓮三足爐 ’乾隆年製·千‘款