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A LARGE BRONZE TRIPOD CENSER AND COVER
QIANLONG CAST SEAL MARK, QIANLONG/19TH CENTURY
Raised on three elephant-head supports with further elephant heads with upturned trunks forming the handles, the sides decorated with lotus scroll as is the reticulated cover below a finial formed as a recumbent elephant supporting a bowl filled with babao, the patina of dark olive tone, some hardstone inlay missing--19in. (48.3cm.) high
QIANLONG CAST SEAL MARK, QIANLONG/19TH CENTURY
Raised on three elephant-head supports with further elephant heads with upturned trunks forming the handles, the sides decorated with lotus scroll as is the reticulated cover below a finial formed as a recumbent elephant supporting a bowl filled with babao, the patina of dark olive tone, some hardstone inlay missing--19in. (48.3cm.) high