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藝臻期頤-MARCHANT珍藏中國藝術品

717 A SMALL PARCEL-GILT-BRONZE Professor Seguier Drake was born in Shandong, China.
BARREL-FORM CENSER From a distinguished English family, Professor Drake
was a missionary, scholar and archaeologist who traveled
17TH-18TH CENTURY extensively within China. He served as Dean of the Faculty
of Divinity at Qiliu University in Ji’nan, Shandong, and
The censer is raised on three small gilt elephant-head-form was later appointed as Chair of Chinese at the University of
feet, and is cast in low relief on the sides with pairs of gilt Hong Kong, a position he held for twelve years.
stylized confronted chilong interrupted by two gilt elephant-
head handles, all between gilt bosses in the upper and lower Two related censers are illustrated by Huang Guangnan,
registers. The base is cast with an apocryphal two-character Chinese Incense Burners: Collection of Steven Hung and Lindy
Xuande mark. Chern, Taipei, 2000, p. 154, no. 128.
4√ in. (12.5 cm.) wide across the handles
十七/十八世紀 銅局部鎏金鼓式爐
$20,000-30,000

PROVENANCE

Professor Frederick Seguier Drake (1892-1976) Collection,
and thence by descent.

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