Lot 846
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A PARCEL-GILT BRONZE CENSER AND COVER
A PARCEL-GILT BRONZE CENSER AND COVER
A PARCEL-GILT BRONZE CENSER AND COVER
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A PARCEL-GILT BRONZE CENSER AND COVER
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A PARCEL-GILT BRONZE CENSER AND COVER

17TH-18TH CENTURY

Details
A PARCEL-GILT BRONZE CENSER AND COVER
17TH-18TH CENTURY
The square censer is raised on four curved fish-form legs, which support the lower bombé body decorated on each side with a gilt cartouche enclosing stylized shou characters borne on scrolling lotus stems. The upper body is cast in openwork with dragon medallions on a lotus scroll ground, beneath the domed cover surmounted by a dragon knob. The underside is cast with an apocryphal Xuande mark.
16 in. (40.7 cm.) high
Provenance
Sotheby’s New York, 13 September 2017, lot 134.

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Lot Essay

A gilt-bronze censer of similar form and size, and with similar reticulated decoration, dated to the Kangxi period (1662-1722), from the I. W. Scott Collection, was sold at Sotheby’s London, 3rd June 1975, lot 37, and again at Sotheby’s London, 11 December 1990, lot 46. A cloisonné enamel censer of similar square, three-tier form and raised on four winged-beast-form feet, is in the collection of the National Museum of China, Beijing. (Fig. 1)

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