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65 A Xuande prototype for the present lot, dated by a fourteen-character
A RETICULATED BRONZE INCENSE BURNER AND COVER inscription to AD1430, also of lotus form but with phoenix in flight on
Xuande six-character mark, 17th century the reticulated cover, is included in the collection at the Château de
Cast as a stylised twelve-petalled lotus blossom, encircled by a rope- Fontainebleau and illustrated by C.Samoyault-Verlet et al., Le Musée
twist band and flanked by two phoenix-head handles, all raised on a chinois de l’Impératrice Eugénie, Paris, 1994, p.44, fig.33.
straight foot cast with stiff pendent lappets, the reticulated cover with
a central lotus pod forming the finial encircled by two striding dragons
amid cloud scrolls.
12.2cm (4 3/4 in) high (2).
£10,000 - 15,000 CNY97,000 - 150,000
HK$120,000 - 180,000
十七世紀 銅蓮式小薰爐
「大明宣德年製」楷書鑄款
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