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A BRONZE TRIPOD INCENSE BURNER, DING
Yuan/Ming Dynasty
Heavily cast standing on three lion-mask-headed clawed feet, the
vertical top section applied with two plain pierced upright handles at
the sides and cast in crisp shallow relief with a continuous band of
irregularly-shaped dragon panels on grounds of breaking waves and
flames, the body undecorated, the surface with an attractive old dark
patination. 28cm (11in) wide.
£2,000 - 3,000
CNY18,000 - 27,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

元/明 銅龍紋沖天耳三獸足爐

Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Winter
Exhibition, London, 2012, no.13.

展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展覽》，倫敦，2012年，
編號13

A related example in the collection of the Museo d’Arte Cinese e
Ethnografico dei Missionari Saveriani, Parma, is illustrated by F.Mignini,
Padre Matteo Ricci: L’Europa alla corte dei Ming, Milan, 2003, p.143.
For a bronze incense burner, Yuan dynasty, with a similar frieze of
slender dragons, see Li, A selection of the Treasure of Archaeological
Finds of the People’s Republic of China, Beijing, 1987, no.264. See a
related but larger bronze tripod incense burner and cover, late Ming
dynasty, with a Japanese inscription dated 1613, which was sold at
Bonhams London, 16 May 2013, lot 305. 523

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