A LARGE BRONZE TRIPOD CENSER, DING

Details

A LARGE BRONZE TRIPOD CENSER, DING
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER CAST MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Heavily cast, the bulbous body raised on monster-mask supports and crisply cast around the sides with two pairs of dragons contesting flaming pearls amidst a dense field of clouds, repeated in narrow bands on the neck between raised bands of key-fret and in panels on the facets of the separately cast handles, the nianhao cast in a line within a rectangular reserve on the neck
18 1/8in. (46.3cm.) high

Exhibited

London, Michael Goedhuis, Chinese and Japanese Bronzes, A.D. 1100-1900, 1989, no. 72

Lot Essay

This large ding would have been part of a five-piece altar set, such as the Qianlong-marked set in the Clague Collection, included in the exhibition, China's Renaissance in Bronze, Phoenix Art Museum, September 25, 1993-January 30, 1994, illustrated by Robert Mowry in the Catalogue, no. 38