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25 Circular Ding-shaped Censer

with three legs and with three decorative inscriptions in Arabic script

Qing dynasty, nineteenth century
Cast bronze with cold-worked decoration and with a chiseled mark in
standard-script (kaishu) characters reading Da Ming Xuandenian zao in a
recessed rectangular cartouche on the base
15.2 centimeter diameter
Clague Collection Number 206

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