AN UNUSUAL ARCHAISTIC IMITATION-BRONZE TRIPOD CENSER

JIAQING/DAOGUANG PERIOD, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY

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AN UNUSUAL ARCHAISTIC IMITATION-BRONZE TRIPOD CENSER
JIAQING/DAOGUANG PERIOD, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
With bulbous body supported on three cabriole legs issuing from stylized animal heads, molded around the upper body with bands of simplified taotie masks above bow-string bands and beneath the everted rim, flanked on either side by a pair of bail handles, the base with six-character impressed mark reading Xinyin shuwu zhencang (Xinyin study collection)
9 7/8 in. (25.1 cm.) across handles

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Lot Essay

Compare a nearly identical censer of the same shape and size, also with Xiyin shuwu zhencang mark, from the Sir Percival David Collection, illustrated by R. Scott, For the Imperial Court: Qing Porcelain from the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1997, no. 36, where it is dated probably Qianlong or Jiaqing period.

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