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藝臻期頤-MARCHANT珍藏中國藝術品
714 A BRONZE TRIPOD CENSER WITH DRAGONS (mark)
17TH-18TH CENTURY
Of compressed form, the censer is raised on three lion-mask feet and has
a lipped rim above the waisted neck. The body is cast in low relief with
two panels, each containing two confronted four-clawed dragons in
pursuit of a faming pearl, between two lion-mask handles, and the base
has an apocryphal six-character Xuande mark.
9æ in. (24.8 cm.) wide across the handles
$6,000-8,000
PROVENANCE
Private family collection, Devon, England, by 1970.
A related bronze censer was exhibited at the Phoenix Art Museum and
illustrated by R. D. Mowry, China’s Renaissance in Bronze: The Robert
H. Clague Collection of Later Chinese Bronzes 1100-1900, Phoenix, 1993,
no. 22.
十七/十八世紀 銅雙龍戲珠紋三足爐
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