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8003
A GILT BRONZE TRIPOD CENSER
17th century
Rising on three elephant-head-form legs with reticulated tusks,
supporting a compressed globular body, rising to a projecting, flat lip,
issuing two upright loop handles.
6 1/4in (15.8cm) high
US$7,000 - 9,000
十七世紀 銅鎏金沖天耳象首三足爐
A censer of related proportions, with elephant-form legs with similarly
reticulated tusks, was sold at Bonhams San Francisco, 21 June 2011,
sale 18888, lot 8193.
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE TEXAS COLLECTOR 8003
8004
A BRONZE TRIPOD CENSER WITH COVER
17th century
The censer of compressed globular shape, rising on three bulbous
cabriole legs, each decorated with raised cloud scroll patterns, the
sides issuing two c-shaped handles, the body bisected by a double
string border below a row of spiral bosses, the mouth with an everted
rim, the cover with three tiers, and a pierced aperture.
6 3/4in (17cm) wide
US$2,000 - 3,000
十七世紀 銅團花紋沖天耳三足鼎帶蓋
A related censer was sold in our New York rooms, 14 September
2015, sale 22461, as half of lot 8005. This censer is quite unusual in
that it retains its heavy bronze cover. A censer of this form, with similar
tiered cover, handles, cabriole legs and circular bosses, dated as
Xuande period, but with cloisonné surface, was sold at Sotheby’s New
York, 23 March 2004, sale 7974, lot 525.
8004
8005
A BRONZE POURING VESSEL
Ming dynasty
The vessel takes the shape of a round basin with a spout in the form
of a dragon’s scaly neck and horned head, the opposing wall of the
vessel issuing a small curved handle in the shape of the dragon’s
curling tail, the outer sides of the vessel decorated with a hexagonal
diaper pattern within simple strings borders, all on a low foot, now with
a later reticulated wooden cover and stand.
10in (25.4cm) wide
US$3,000 - 5,000
明 銅龍首花菱紋匜
A very similar vessel, of more plain design, lacking the diaper-pattern
surface but with nearly identical spout and handle, is published by
Philip K. Hu in Later Chinese Bronzes, the Saint Louis Art Museum and
Robert E. Kresko Collections, Saint Louis, 2008, pg. 67, No.11.
8005
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