17TH CENTURY

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A BRONZE TRIPOD CENSER
17TH CENTURY
The shallow circular censer is raised on three feet decorated with beast masks. The sides are cast with twin chilong handles grasping the rim. The base has an apocryphal Xuande mark.
9 5/8 in. (24.5 cm.) wide across handles

来源

Private collection in the UK, acquired in London in the 1980s-1990s

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Samantha Yuen

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Descriptif du lot

See a similar bronze censer with dragon handles and a Xuande mark to the base, dated to the 16th-17th century, illustrated by Sydney L. Moss Ltd., The Second Bronze Age: Later Chinese Metalwork, Hong Kong, 1991, no. 43.

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