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A large bronze ‘Buddhist lion’ incense burner and cover
Cast Xuande six-character mark, late 16th/17th century
Standing on a sturdily cast lotus lappet pedestal with ruyi-heads forming
the feet at the four corners, the rectangular vessel on four feet each cast
as a powerful paw issuing from the open jaw of a mythical creature, the
exterior cast with boys playing with lush vine scrolls and archaistic shou
characters in relief, flanked by a pair of chimera handles clambering onto
the mouthrim decorated in keyfret scrolls, the pierced lotus-scroll cover
surmounted with a recumbent Buddhist lion finial with a smaller cub
seated on its back, the base cast with a six-character apocryphal kaishu
mark.
35.4cm high. (3).
HK$200,000 - 400,000
US$26,000 - 52,000
明 銅局部鎏金螭龍耳壽紋獅鈕方蓋爐 陽文「大明宣德年製」楷文方印
Compare a similar but slightly smaller bronze incense burner with
reticulated cover and Buddhist lion finial, without original stand, sold at
Sotheby’s Paris, 16 December 2010, lot 266.

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