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AN UNUSUAL LARGE GOLD-SPLASHED BRONZE TRIPOD CENSER
17TH-18TH CENTURY
The heavily cast censer has a compressed drum-shaped body raised on three monster-mask supports,
and a pair of lion-mask handles set between the rows of bosses above and below, all of the masks are
highlighted with gilding and faint gold splashes decorate the body. The base is cast with an apocryphal
Xuande mark.
13æ in. (35 cm.) wide across handles, Japanese wood box
$30,000-50,000

十七/十八世紀 銅灑金乳釘紋獸面三足爐七/十八世紀
十 銅灑金乳釘紋獸面三足爐

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