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A LARGE GILT-SPLASHED BRONZE TRIPOD CENSER
EARLY QING DYNASTY, 17TH-18TH CENTURY
The heavily cast censer is of bombé form standing on three cabriole legs and fashioned
with two coiled chilong to its rim forming the loop handles. Each of the single-horned
beasts is cast with a fierce expression and modelled with a row of nodes that form the
backbone, the details of its mane are finely delineated. The censer is covered to the
exterior and base with rich gilt splashes. The base is cast with an apocryphal four-character
Xuande seal mark within a rectangle encircled by a raised lip.
14 ¿ in. (36 cm.) wide across the handles
HK$100,000-150,000 US$13,000-19,000
清初 灑金銅螭龍耳三足爐
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