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A CAST BRONZE CENSER IN THE FORM OF GOOSE
17th century
Depicted with a graceful curve to its neck and head held up, the
open beak providing a smoke hole, the hollow body covered with
a lid formed as the joined wings with stylized feathers and centered
with a raised tab that forms the handle and another smoke hole.
10 1/2in (27cm) high
$3,000 - 5,000
A censer of similar form and date, but slightly larger size, was sold
in Bonhams, San Francisco sale 22473, 13 October 2015, lot 3122
(14in [35.5cm] high).
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A TALL BRONZE VASE
Ming dynasty
Of heavy casting and flattened pear form, the mouth and waisted neck
of circular section with loose rings hanging from animal-headed loop
handles spanning a diamond diaper band in subtle relief repeated
around the flaring foot with a recessed base.
19 1/4in (49cm) high
$1,500 - 2,500
The vase shape is one well-documented to the Ming dynasty and
earlier. For a vase of similar shape but lacking the loose rings and
encircled with differing decorative bands, see Robert Mowry, China’s
Renaissance in Bronze: The Robert H. Clague Collection of Later
Chinese Bronzes 1100-1900, Phoenix, 1993, pp. 43-47, cat. 7
(as probably 15th century and 33cm height).

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