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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
AN UNUSUAL SMALL SILVER AND GILT-BRONZE CENSER
17TH/18TH CENTURY
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AN UNUSUAL SMALL SILVER AND GILT-BRONZE CENSER
17TH/18TH CENTURY
The sides of the bronze vessel decorated in high relief with the Eight Daoist Immortals, each with silver head and gilded body, with a pair of phoenixes and a pair of cranes in flight above, all reserved on a fine ring-matted ground between gilt borders of key fret above and below, raised on three silver ruyi-head feet and with silver mouth rim
2 3/8 in. (6 cm.) high, wood stand
17TH/18TH CENTURY
The sides of the bronze vessel decorated in high relief with the Eight Daoist Immortals, each with silver head and gilded body, with a pair of phoenixes and a pair of cranes in flight above, all reserved on a fine ring-matted ground between gilt borders of key fret above and below, raised on three silver ruyi-head feet and with silver mouth rim
2 3/8 in. (6 cm.) high, wood stand