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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION ANOTHER PROPERTY
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2116 A LARGE BRONZE TRIPOD CENSER
A SMALL GILT-SPLASHED BRONZE CONJOINED VASE AND WATER 17TH-18TH CENTURY
POT
QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER INSCRIBED MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736- The heavily cast censer has a compressed body raised on three integral
1795) conical feet, and a pair of open handles that sweep outward from the
rim. An aprocryphal Xuande mark is on the base.
The vase is cast around the body with a broad band of archaistic 13º in. (33.6 cm.) across, wood stand
dragon scroll above a band of pendent cicada blades and below a key-
fret border, repeated on the sides of the conjoined water pot above $12,000-18,000
a ruyi border at the foot and below C-scrolls at the base of the neck.
Both vessels have a dark patina splashed in gold. PROVENANCE:
4¬ in. (11.8 cm.) high
Lorenzo James Hatch (1826-1912) Collection, and thence by descent
$10,000-15,000 within the family.

The present vessel belongs to a group of Qianlong-marked miniature 明末/清十八世紀 銅鎏金橋耳乳足爐
component vases, most of which are in the form of a double-vase,
refecting the emperor’s interest in archaism. For examples of conjoined
double-vases, see one also comprising a squat jar and a tall vase decorated
with bats and clouds, attributed to the imperial workshops or made for the
palace, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue Arts from the Scholar’s Studio,
Hong Kong Oriental Ceramics Society, 1986, p. 244, no. 236. Another from
the W.W. Winkworth Collection, illustrated by S. Jenyns and W. Watson,
Chinese Art: The Minor Arts, London, 1963, pl. 50, was sold at Christie’s
London, 16 November 1999, lot 106. A third vessel was sold at Christie’s
New York, 15 September 2009, lot 257.

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