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A LARGE GILT-SPLASHED BRONZE PROVENANCE Victoria Dreyfus 1881 1976 1976 6 9
CENSER Madrey Farm Brewster
17TH / 18TH CENTURY Collection of Victoria Dreyfus (1881-1976),
Madrey Farm, Brewster, New York. Parke Bernet
of archaistic gui form anked by a pair of abstract Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 9th-12th June 12 7
mythical-beast handles, nely cast around the 1976, lot 7.
exterior with two bold taotie masks on a leiwen
ground, each centered by a notched vertical See a closely related censer of this type, bearing
the same mark, sold at Christie’s New York, 17th
ange, the high foot with a band of highly stylized March 2017, lot 1041; further examples sold in our
S-shaped kuilong on a leiwen ground, the base Hong Kong rooms, 10th April 2006, lot 1701; and
with a twelve-character mark reading Xuande at Christie’s New York, 22nd March 1999, lot 76.
ernian Zhou Yi wei Xiuhuang zhuren zhi (made by
Zhou Yi for the master of Xiuhuang in the second $ 20,000-30,000
year of Xuande)
Width 17¼ in., 43.7 cm
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