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An archaic bronze ‘duck’ incense burner and cover within a bowl
Mid Western Han dynasty
Affixed within a bowl to simulate a swimming duck when filled with
water, the feathery bird standing on two webbed feet, its body defined
by a pair of wings with feathers swept backwards with beak tightly
closed, the back fashioned as a removable cover worked in reticulated
archaistic scrolls.
23.2cm diam.
HK$60,000 - 80,000
US$7,700 - 10,000

西漢中期 青銅鳥形熏爐

See an almost identical excavated example also dated to the Mid
Western Han dynasty, unearthed from tomb no.3 of Zoumaliang,
Guchengtancun, Niujialiang, Yuyang district, Yulin, Shaanxi province in
1999, in the Institute of Cultural Relics Preservation at Yulin, Shaanxi
province, illustrated in Bronzes from Northern Shaanxi. Volume V,
Chengdu, 2009, p.955, accession no.YL26.

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An archaic bronze ‘duck’ incense burner and cover
Han dynasty
Standing above a circular disc with a pair of webbed feet, the feathery
creature with wide body and long curved neck rising to an raised head
with pronounced beak, the bulging back worked in reticulation and
decorated with meandering scrolls.
16.4cm wide. (2).
HK$50,000 - 70,000
US$6,500 - 9,000

漢 青銅鳥形熏爐

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