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15 Circular Gui-shaped Censer

with two handles in the form of stylized dragons and with taotie decor

Ming to Qing dynasty, seventeenth century
Cast bronze with decoration inlaid in silver wire and in sheet silver, with
induced surface color, and with a cast mark in thread-relief standard-
script (kaishu) characters reading Da Ming Xuandenian zhi in a recessed
rectangular cartouche on the base
7.9 centimeter diameter
Clague Collection Number 203

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