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A GILT-SPLASHED BRONZE TRIPOD CENSER
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17TH-18TH CENTURY
The compressed body is raised on three tapering feet and fanked by two loop handles, and is decorated on
the exterior with irregular gold fecks. The base is cast with the four-character mark Yutang qingwan (‘Pure
pleasure of the Jade Hall).
6√ in. (17.5 cm.) across the handles, Japanese wood box
$25,000-35,000
The mark, yutang qingwan, is found on three censers illustrated in Jin Yu Qing Yan: Yang Ping Zhen Xian
Sheng Zhen Cang Ming Qing Tong Lu (Golden Jade and Green Smoke: Mr. Yang Ping Zhen’s Collection
of Ming and Qing Bronze Censers), National Museum of History, 1996, pp. 222-23, nos. 151 and 152, and
p. 278, no. 234.
明末/清十八世紀 銅灑金押經爐 「玉堂清玩」款
