17TH CENTURY

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A BRONZE TRIPOD CENSER AND STAND
17TH CENTURY
Of compressed form, the censer is raised on three short, tapering feet and applied with two upright loop handles on the rim. The base of the censer is cast with an apocryphal Xuande mark, and the stand is shaped as three overlapping petals.
7 in. (17.8 cm.) wide across handles, cloth box

Provenance

Private collection, Japan.

Lot Essay

It is rare to find a bronze censer with upright handles raised on a petal-form stand, however, a gilt-splashed example dated to the Kangxi-Qianlong’ period (1662-1795) was included in the exhibition, Later Chinese Bronzes: The Saint Louis Art Museum and Robert E. Kresko Collections, Saint Louis, 2008, p. 137, no. 28. A related censer and stand, but with handles on the body, was sold at Christie’s New York, Marchant: Nine Decades in Chinese Art, 14 September 2017, lot 721.

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