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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF LENORA AND WALTER F.
BROWN
1605
AN ARCHAISTIC BRONZE GUI-FORM CENSER
18TH-19TH CENTURY
Cast in the form of an archaic bronze ritual vessel, the censer
is decorated on either side with a taotie mask centered on a
flange and reserved on a leiwen band, a further leiwen band
with kui dragons encircling the foot. The censer is flanked by
C-shaped handles surmounted by animal heads and set with
pendent rectangular tabs below. The interior is cast with an
archaistic inscription in seal script.
6æ in. (17.1 cm.) wide across handles
1605 $4,000-6,000
PROVENANCE:
Roger Keverne, London, 2011.
The Lenora and Walter F. Brown Collection, San Antonio,
Texas.
EXHIBITED:
London, Roger Keverne, Fine and Rare Chinese Works of Art
and Ceramics - Summer Exhibition, 2011.

LITERATURE:
Roger Keverne, Fine and Rare Chinese Works of Art and
Ceramics - Summer Exhibition, London, 2011, p. 29, no. 103.

十八/十九世紀 銅仿古饕餮紋簋式爐

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF LENORA AND WALTER F.
BROWN
1606
A LARGE BRONZE 'GARLIC-MOUTH' VASE
LATE MING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY
The bottle vase has a compressed bulbous body and a tall
straight neck rising to a lobed garlic shape beneath the
circular mouth rim. A sinuous chilong is coiled around the
neck, and the vase is raised on an integral tiered stand.
18º in. (46.3 cm.) high
$8,000-12,000

PROVENANCE:
Roger Keverne, London, 2011.
The Lenora and Walter F. Brown Collection, San Antonio,
Texas.

晚明十七世紀 銅蟠螭蒜頭瓶

1606