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2329 PROPERTY FROM THE EMMANUEL GRAN FAMILY COLLECTION
AN OVOID BRONZE CENSER WITH STAND
Xuande mark, late Qing/Republic period 2334
The censer with bombé walls supporting a pair of qilin that form the AN ARCHAISTIC BRONZE JAR
curving handles and the foot ring raised on four lobed feet, the flat 17th/18th century
base cut with a square opening and filled from the inside with a plate Of inverted pear form the shoulder encircled by raised string bands, a
bearing a cast six-character mark in regular script; the conforming wide band of impressed S-scrolls bordered by rows of tiny rings and
stand resting on lobed feet similar to those of the censer (wear). a third raised band impressed with a diamond diaper pattern, a pair of
15 1/2in (39.4cm) length across the handles loose rings hanging from loop handles issuing from bovine heads and
$2,000 - 3,000 a third loop handle to match above the foot, the dark brown ground
textured with patches of artificial brown patina (foot ring repaired).
2330 13 3/8in (34cm) high
A SMALL BRONZE TRIPOD CENSER, DING $1,000 - 1,500
Qing dynasty
With a pair of loop handles rising from the rim and three taotie mask 2335
panels encircling the curving walls, the tapering legs fronted with AN ARCHAISTIC BRONZE HU-FORM VASE
cicada patterns (wear from use); with assembled wood cover and 18h/19th century
double wood stand. Cast with a waisted neck and canted foot, the compressed globular
2 7/8in (6.8cm) height of censer body encircled by a wide band of three taotie mask panels separated
4 1/2in (11.5cm) height including cover and stands by vertical projecting flanges (base plate lost).
$1,000 - 1,500 12in (30.5cm) high
$800 - 1,200
2331
A CAST BRONZE COVERED CENSER OF LUDUAN SHAPE 2336
Qing dynasty A GROUP OF SMALL-SCALE PORCELAIN AND METAL
The head of the fabulous beast sporting a single horn, pointed ears ACCESSORIES
and curving strands of a mane framing an open jaw while clouds curl Late Qing dynasty
in raised relief across the body raised on four legs fronted with a tassel Including an iron red and gilt-decorated compressed globular water
below remains of a hinge that originally would have connected to the coupe; a rectangular brush pot and square-sectioned censer with
head, the surfaces showing remains of artificial green patina (altered, reticulated cover; the fourth a silver-inlaid white brass box in the
extensive wear to patina). shape of a pea pod with suspension ring; the fifth a polychrome
14in (35.5cm) high enameled silver amulet case; together with a black and gilt-lacquered
$2,000 - 3,000 pigskin hinged document box with dragon and phoenix decoration
and a silver-mounted Tibetan steel knife and scabbard with chased
2332 decoration (wear and soiling to metal work). [7]
A MING STYLE BRONZE FU-LION 3 1/2in (9cm) height of brush pot
Cast crouching with its front legs up and with its head turned toward 6 1/2in (16cm) length of Tibetan knife
the right. $1,000 - 1,500
8 1/2in (21.5cm) long
$1,000 - 1,500 PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS
For a prototype from the 15th/16th century, see the parcel gilt bronze 2337
lion with colored stone inlay in the Victoria & Albert Museum published A SET OF SIX BRONZE STANDARDS
by Rose Kerr in Late Chinese Bronzes, 1990, p. 88, no. 72. Guangxu period, dated by inscription to 1897
The bases comprised of vasiform handles incised Li Longxi tang jing
2333 feng to one side and reversed by the Guangxu ershier nian date on
A CAST BRONZE TSA TSA MOLD the other separating opposing small beast head ring handles and
Designed to impress small clay amulets for Vajrayana Buddhist supporting horned dragon heads from which issue lengthy sword
practitioners, the small but solidly cast object of ogival shape bearing shaped shafts piercing large central plaques each combining a
a six-character Qianlong mark to the underside and supporting a fitted different an baxian and ba jixiang motif, the tips terminating in finials
and handled lid centered by an inscription reading zhou yi; the interior formed by one of the Eight Immortals on an animal mount (losses,
surfaces cast in relief to produce impressed images of a multi-armed some immortals missing attributes).
Buddhist deity reversed by an inscription in Manchu, Mongol, Chinese, 31 in (78.7 cm) high
and Tibetan identifying the deity as the Vairocana Buddha and bearing $6,000 - 9,000
an additional Qianlong mark.
4in (10cm) high Provenance
$2,000 - 3,000 Sotheby’s New York, 16th March 1984, lot 131
A fascinating example of the inherent syncretism of Chinese religion,
these ceremonial objects combine both Buddhist and Daoist
iconography. Originally a set of eight, the standards missing from
this set would probably have had the missing last two of the Eight
Auspicious Buddhist Emblems, the conch and the lotus, as well as the
mounted image and identifying icons of He Xiangu and Lan Caihe.
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