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19TH CENTURY
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AN UNUSUAL GLASS-INLAID BRONZE CENSER IN THE FORM OF A MYTHICAL BEAST
19TH CENTURY
The ferocious beast shown standing foursquare with head turned sharply to one side and with mouth agape in a roar, arrayed in rich trappings inset with sky-blue and coral-colored glass beads, the back draped with a fringed blanket upon which sits the pierced cover cast with lotus scroll below the conical knop emerging from ruyi-head clouds; together with a glass ball
13 5/8 in. (34.5 cm.) high, wood stand
19TH CENTURY
The ferocious beast shown standing foursquare with head turned sharply to one side and with mouth agape in a roar, arrayed in rich trappings inset with sky-blue and coral-colored glass beads, the back draped with a fringed blanket upon which sits the pierced cover cast with lotus scroll below the conical knop emerging from ruyi-head clouds; together with a glass ball
13 5/8 in. (34.5 cm.) high, wood stand
Provenance
Dragon House, San Francisco, 1992.
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