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AN INSCRIBED BRONZE ‘PHOENIX’
CENSER
19th century
The deep bowl-shaped body cast with
a band of confronting archaistic phoenix
against a leiwen ground, flanked by opposing
upright curved loop handles set just below
the rim, separating two possibly later added
inscriptions in seal script, one reading Da
Qing Jiaqing wuchen Zhuangzheng shi qian
jian zhi (Made under the humble supervision
of Master Zhuangzheng in the wuchen year
(1808)of the Jianqing reign) and the other
Xingyang Yizhuang Jiexiao Ci jiqi (sacrificial
vessel of the Jiexiao Ancestral Temple in
Yizhuang, Xingyang county), all supported on
three cabriole legs.
7 7/8in (20cm) high
$6,000 - 8,000

十九世紀 銅夔鳳紋朝冠耳三足爐
《大清嘉慶戊辰莊正師謙監製》及
《滎陽義莊節孝祠祭器》款
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A PAIR OF PARCEL GILT-BRONZE
‘CHILONG’ GARLIC HEAD VASES
17th century
Each cast with a compressed globular body
rising to a tall waisted neck terminating in
a garlic-head mouth, a sinuous high-relief
chilong entwined around the neck, its
bifurcated tail wrapping around the shoulder,
the surfaces with gilt highlights.
9in (23cm) high
$4,000 - 6,000

十七世紀
銅局部鎏金浮雕螭龍紋蒜頭口瓶一對

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