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3406 THE PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT ASIAN COLLECTOR

A PARCEL-GILT BRONZE CENSER 3407

QIANLONG CAST SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE A RARE SILVER-INLAID AND PARCEL-GILT
SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
BRONZE RUYI
The censer is decorated in relief with pairs of confronting
archaistic dragons with angular scroll bodies alternating with MING DYNASTY, LATE 16TH-EARLY 17TH CENTURY
pendent beads, all raised on four short, circular feet.
3 ¿ in. (7.9 cm.) wide The sceptre is decorated in gilt on the ruyi head with a dragon and
a phoenix holding a lingzhi stem in its beak circling each other,
HK$150,000-250,000 US$20,000-32,000 amidst clouds reserved on a cell diaper ground. The reverse is
decorated with conforming bands of diaper pattern and waves, and
清乾隆 局部鎏金銅拐子龍紋香爐 the long arched handle decorated with various flowers including
六字篆書鑄款 magnolia growing from a pierced rock at the pierced tip, crab
apple, narcissus and camellia, all reserved on a smaller star diaper
ground. It is further inlaid in silver with four seal characters, fu
shou ru yi, above a gilt rectangular seal inscribed with the maker’s
mark, Yunjian Hu Wenming zhi.
19 ¡ in. (49.3 cm.) long

HK$800,000-1,000,000 US$110,000-130,000

PROVENANCE

Sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 16 January 1989, lot 301
Sydney L. Moss Ltd., London
Sold at Christie’s New York, 22 March 2007, lot 169

EXHIBITED

On loan: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1992 - 2006, no.
L.92.3.1

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