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780

A SILVER-WIRE INLAID BRONZE TRIPOD
INCENSE BURNER
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
the rounded sides rising from three tubular legs to a galleried
rim, set with a pair of upright loop handles, decorated with
silver-wire inlay with stylised archaistic scrolls below key-
fret bands along the rim and the handles, the domed cover
pierced with quatrefoil cartouches and surmounted by a
Buddhist lion finial, Japanese wood box
20 cm, 7⅞ in.
HK$ 20,000-30,000
US$ 2,550-3,850

清十八世紀 銅嵌銀線三足鼎

780

781

AN ARCHAISTIC BRONZE INCENSE BURNER,
GUI
QING DYNASTY
the bombe body rising from a tall splayed foot to a flared
rim, flanked by a pair of animal mask loop handles, the
exterior cast in low relief with stylised taotie masks reserved
on a leiwen ground, framed above and below with bands of
archaistic mythical beasts interrupted by vertical flanges
or bovine heads, silver-wire inlaid wood cover, wood box
inscribed by Zouroku Hata in 1949 (Showa Tsuchinoto Ushi)
21.5 cm, 8½ in.
HK$ 10,000-15,000
US$ 1,300-1,950

清 青銅仿古簋式爐 781
木盒上附秦蔵六題識，紀年昭和己丑（1949年）

782

TWO SMALL BRONZE INCENSE BURNERS
QING DYNASTY
one of archaistic li form, cast with a shangao shuichang
(‘lofty mountains, lengthy river’) seal mark; the other of ding
form, cast with taotie and pendent blades on the exterior
7.9 and 9 cm, 3⅛ and 3½ in.
HK$ 40,000-60,000
US$ 5,100-7,700

清 銅三足爐二件
782 乳足爐：《山高水長》款

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