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AN ARCHAIC BRONZE OPENWORK INCENSE BURNER Compare with a related incense burner with a similar design, Warring
AND COVER States Period, in the Fengxiang Museum, illustrated in The Complete
Warring States Period Collection of Bronzes Unearthed in China, Beijing, 2019, vol.17, pl.635.
Cast on a square platform supported on a pierced trefoil ground,
surmounted by the ritualistic vessel with splayed feet decorated with 底部方座四邊飾鏤空絞絲紋，臺沿鑄凸起紋飾，圈足束腰，外撇，上飾
scrolling chi dragon design, beneath a spherical cup and cover in 浮雕螭龍紋，爐身圓鼓，外壁鏤空，作變體纏身蟠龍紋，爐腹四面鑄獸
reticulated basket weave design with four animal-mask ring handles at 面鋪首銜環，蓋頂立一鳥。
the compass points, the cover with a bird finial, box.
21.7cm high. (2). 此爐通體鏤空，內外兩層，鑄造極盡巧思。可參考鳳翔縣博物館藏
一件戰國鏤空方座爐，與此件頗似，見《中國出土青銅器全集》，北
HKD250,000 - 350,000 京，2019年，卷17，編號635。
US$32,000 - 45,000
戰國 青銅四環耳鏤空方座香薰

Provenance:
The Sze Yuan Tang Collection, acquired in Hong Kong circa
1980s-1990s
Bonhams Hong Kong, 24 November 2013, lot 504

來源:
思源堂舊藏，於1980至1990年代在香港獲得
香港邦瀚斯，2013年11月24日，拍品編號504

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