A Chinese yellow-ground famille rose altar set

The censer is decorated with two pierced upright handles decorated with lotus sprays and key fret bands to the sides, the bulbous body of the censer is decorated with the Eight Buddhist Emblems amongst scrolling lotus, all below a ruyi-head band to the shoulder and further lotus sprays to the neck. The censer stands on three cabriole legs decorated with further lotus sprays. The interior is glazed turquoise, and the base is enamelled with a flower head. The rim with an apocryphal Qianlong mark.Comprising a censer is decorated with two pierced upright handles decorated with lotus sprays and key fret bands to the sides, the bulbous body of the censer is decorated with the Eight Buddhist Emblems amongst scrolling lotus, all below a ruyi-head band to the shoulder and further lotus sprays to the neck. The censer stands on three cabriole legs decorated with further lotus sprays. The interior is glazed turquoise, and the base is enamelled with a flower head. The rim with an apocryphal Qianlong mark. The gu vases and the candlesticks are similarly decorated. The upper and lower sections are made separate.

The censer: 28.7 cm. high, 38.1 cm. wide The gu vases: 31.2 cm. high, 17 cm. diam. The candlesticks: 31 cm. high, 14 cm. diam.