Lot Essay
This censer is inspired by Xuande models like the one illustrated in Le Musée de l'Impératrice Eugénie, Château de Fontainebleau, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1 january 1986, p. 44
See a comparable example of the same period with the sides cast with lotus-petal lobes rising to the rim and encircled above the mid-section with a twisted rope band sold in our Hong Kong Rooms, 29 April 2002, lot 698.
See a comparable example of the same period with the sides cast with lotus-petal lobes rising to the rim and encircled above the mid-section with a twisted rope band sold in our Hong Kong Rooms, 29 April 2002, lot 698.