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VARIOUS PROPERTIES
1783
AN UNUSUAL GOLD AND SILVER-INLAID RECTANGULAR
TWO-HANDLED ‘ELEPHANT’ CENSER, FANGDING
18TH CENTURY
The censer is raised on four elephant-head legs embellished with turquoise
and coral beads, and has a pair of elephant-head handles. The sides are
intricately inlaid in gold and silver with a band of archaistic confronting birds
above a band of vertical blades. The base is cast with a six-character mark
reading Xingpu Zhai qingzheng zhuren, which can be translated as ‘Master of
Xing Pu Hall’. (mark)
6Ω in. (16.5 cm.) wide, cloth box
$12,000-18,000
清十八世紀 銅錯金銀象頭四足耳方爐 「杏樸齋清正主人」七字鑄款
