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A LARGE CHINESE BRONZE ARCHAISTIC FOOD A CHINESE PARCEL-GILT AND
VESSEL, GUI SILVER-DECORATED BRONZE ‘BUTTERFLY’
MING/QING DYNASTY INCENSE BURNER
Cast with taotie masks and other archaistic motifs against MING/QING DYNASTY
a leiwen ground, the body flanked by two loop handles Decorated with six butterflies beneath a
issuing from the mouths of mythical creatures, with two band of auspicious beribboned objects on
lines of seal script characters to the interior, all raised on a a geometric ground, the body flanked by
tall flared foot, together with a wood cover surmounted by two loop handles emerging from stylised
a hardstone finial, 34cm, 6kg. (2) animal masks, the base with a six character
£1,000-2,000 mark reading Yun Jian Hu Wenming zhi, 17cm,
938g.
Provenance: from an English private collection, Hampshire.
£1,500-2,500

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A CHINESE BRONZE TRIPOD INCENSE BURNER A CHINESE BRONZE TRIPOD INCENSE BURNER
QING DYNASTY QING DYNASTY
The compressed body flanked by With raised bands to the cylindrical body and flat everted
two loop handles shaped as dragon rim, raised on three short feet cast as elephant heads, the
heads, dated autumn of the bingzi base with a six character Xuande mark encircled by two
year, the base with a nine character sinuous dragons chasing a sacred jewel, 17.7cm, 1.1kg.
mark reading bingzi meng qiu Mu Yan £1,000-2,000
Fu fang Xuan, 14cm, 950g.
£200-300

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