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A BRONZE TRIPOD CENSER AND STAND A LARGE ARCHAISTIC SILVER AND GOLD-INLAID BRONZE
17TH CENTURY VESSEL, FANGHU
Of compressed form, the censer is raised on three short, tapering feet and 18TH-19TH CENTURY
applied with two upright loop handles on the rim. The base of the censer The vessel of square section is cast in relief with a wide band of pendent
is cast with an apocryphal Xuande mark, and the stand is shaped as three blades enclosing taotie masks above a band of confronted dragons on the
overlapping petals. slightly splayed foot, and below a band of stylized phoenixes on the shoulder
7 in. (17.8 cm.) wide across handles, cloth box and a band of roundels on the neck. The corners are cast with hooked fanges.
18º in. (46.9 cm.) high
$10,000-15,000
$30,000-50,000
PROVENANCE
Private collection, Japan. PROVENANCE
Christie’s London, 6 November 2007, lot 111.
It is rare to fnd a bronze censer with upright handles raised on a petal-form
stand, however, a gilt-splashed example dated to the Kangxi-Qianlong’ 清十八/十九世紀 銅錯金銀龍鳳紋出脊方壺
period (1662-1795) was included in the exhibition, Later Chinese Bronzes:
The Saint Louis Art Museum and Robert E. Kresko Collections, Saint Louis,
2008, p. 137, no. 28. A related censer and stand, but with handles on the
body, was sold at Christie’s New York, Marchant: Nine Decades in Chinese
Art, 14 September 2017, lot 721.
十七世紀 鬲式爐連座

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