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35 Covered Circular Gui-shaped Censer

with two elephant-head handles and with gold splashes

Qing dynasty, probably early nineteenth century
Cast bronze with applied gold splashes, with rust-brown coating, and with
a chiseled relief mark in standard-script (kaishu) characters reading Da
Ming Xuandenian zhi in a recessed square cartouche on the base, the cover
hammered, turned, and cold worked
15.2 centimeter width across handles
Clague Collection Number 222

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