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SONG/MING DYNASTY, 12TH-17TH CENTURY
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A RARE GOLD AND SILVER-INLAID BRONZE CENSER
SONG/MING DYNASTY, 12TH-17TH CENTURY
Decorated in the archaic style with taotie masks on the sides between bands of confronted birds on the waisted neck and spreading foot, with a pair of tabbed loop handles surmounted by animal masks, all inlaid in gold and silver sheet and wire and with simulated malachite and earth encrustation
5¾ in. (14.6 cm.) across handles
SONG/MING DYNASTY, 12TH-17TH CENTURY
Decorated in the archaic style with taotie masks on the sides between bands of confronted birds on the waisted neck and spreading foot, with a pair of tabbed loop handles surmounted by animal masks, all inlaid in gold and silver sheet and wire and with simulated malachite and earth encrustation
5¾ in. (14.6 cm.) across handles
Provenance
Frederick Anthony White, London.
Exhibited
London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of Chinese Art, 1915.