PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
TWO BRONZE CENSERS
17TH/18TH CENTURY
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TWO BRONZE CENSERS
17TH/18TH CENTURY
One a censer and cover finely cast as a recumbent duck with long neck and head turned to the side as it opens its mouth for the emission of smoke, with further small openings in front of the wings and a cash-shaped opening in the back of the tail, the base with an apocryphal Xuande mark; the other of cylindrical form raised on three ruyi-head supports, the sides well cast with a continuous scene of ten deer on the shores of a river in a rocky landscape, with a two-character inscription, zhen yong, on the base
4¾ and 3 13/16 in. (12 and 9.7 cm.) across (2)
17TH/18TH CENTURY
One a censer and cover finely cast as a recumbent duck with long neck and head turned to the side as it opens its mouth for the emission of smoke, with further small openings in front of the wings and a cash-shaped opening in the back of the tail, the base with an apocryphal Xuande mark; the other of cylindrical form raised on three ruyi-head supports, the sides well cast with a continuous scene of ten deer on the shores of a river in a rocky landscape, with a two-character inscription, zhen yong, on the base
4¾ and 3 13/16 in. (12 and 9.7 cm.) across (2)
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Krystelle Sun
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