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Qing dynasty, Qianlong period, mid-eighteenth century
Cast bronze with cast and cold-worked decoration, with brown coating,
and with a cast thread-relief mark in standard-script (kaishu) characters
reading Da Qing Qianlongnian zhi in a recessed rectangular cartouche on
the base of the censer
32.2 centimeter height for the censer, 38.1 centimeter height for the
candlesticks, 26.7 centimeter height for the vases
Clague Collection Number 223
