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THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE NEW JERSEY COLLECTOR
846
A PARCEL-GILT BRONZE CENSER AND COVER
17TH-18TH CENTURY
The square censer is raised on four curved fish-form legs, which support the A gilt-bronze censer of similar form and size, and with similar reticulated
lower bombé body decorated on each side with a gilt cartouche enclosing decoration, dated to the Kangxi period (1662-1722), from the I. W. Scott
stylized shou characters borne on scrolling lotus stems. The upper body is Collection, was sold at Sotheby’s London, 3 June 1975, lot 37, and again at
rd
cast in openwork with dragon medallions on a lotus scroll ground, beneath Sotheby’s London, 11 December 1990, lot 46. A cloisonné enamel censer of
the domed cover surmounted by a dragon knob. The underside is cast with an similar square, three-tier form and raised on four winged-beast-form feet, is
apocryphal Xuande mark. in the collection of the National Museum of China, Beijing. (Fig. 1)
16 in. (40.7 cm.) high
$60,000-80,000

PROVENANCE:
Sotheby’s New York, 13 September 2017, lot 134.
新澤西私人珍藏
十七/十八世紀 局部鎏金銅壽字蓮紋鏤空香薰
來源:
紐約蘇富比, 2017年9月13日, 拍品編號 134

Fig. 1 A cloisonné enamel censer and cover with `squirrel and
grape’ motif, Collection of National Museum of China.
圖一 銅胎掐絲琺瑯松鼠葡萄鏤空香薰, 中國國家博物館

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