Lot 618
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A RARE AND FINELY CAST BRONZE CENSER AND COVER
Property from a Private American Collection 
A RARE AND FINELY CAST BRONZE CENSER AND COVER

18TH CENTURY

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A RARE AND FINELY CAST BRONZE CENSER AND COVER
18TH CENTURY
Of rectangular section, the censer well-cast with mythical beasts rising out of the sea and galloping across turbulent waves, the ends with a pair of lion mask handles, supported on a tall foot encircled by a band of lotus lappets, the domed openwork cover cast in high relief with dragons and phoenixes amidst swirling clouds beneath the tall finial surmounted by a coiled dragon, the base with an apocryphal six-character Xuande mark
9 3/16 in. (23.3 cm.) high, wood stand
Provenance
Christie's, Hong Kong, 27 April 1998, lot 759.

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Lot Essay

See a much smaller (15.8 cm. diam.) closely related example, with six-character Xuande mark and dated to the Kangxi period, from the Robert H. Clague Collection, included in the 1994 exhibition at the Phoenix Art Museum, China's Renaissance in Bronze, no. 21. See, also, the even smaller (14.7 cm. long) example from the collection of Robert E. Kresko, illustrated by P. Hu, Later Chinese Bronzes. The Saint Louis Art Museum and Robert E. Kresko Collections, St. Louis, 2008, no. 18.

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