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A PAIR OF BRONZE ‘BUDDHIST
LION’ CENSERS
17TH CENTURY

each cast seated, with a raised head with large
bulbous eyes beneath curled eyebrows and
surmounted by a pair of furled ears, the mouth
opened revealing sharp fangs, the body detailed
with a combed mane and upright bushy tail, one
with its right front paw resting on a brocade ball,
the other with its cub clambering on its left hind
leg, wood stands (4)
Height 11⅞ in., 30.1 cm

$ 10,000-15,000

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A ‘HUANGHUALI’ SMALL LOW
TABLE (KANGZHUO)
QING DYNASTY, 18TH / 19TH
CENTURY

the rectangular top of standard construction with
a single board tongue-and-grooved ush, oating
panel, the edges of the frame molding inward
and downward and ending in a narrow at band,
resting on a recessed waist and shaped, aring
and beaded apron, raised on four cabriole legs
terminating in paw feet
Height 10¾ in., 27.3 cm; Width 30½ in., 77.5 cm;
Depth 16¾ in., 42.5 cm

PROVENANCE

Collection of Scott Emerson (c. 1905-?), Winea
Plantation, Georgetown, South Carolina.
Acquired from the above in 1981, and thence by
descent.

Ⴚ$ 25,000-35,000

Scott Emerson 1905 Winea
Plantation
1981