17TH/18TH CENTURY

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A BRONZE TRIPOD CENSER
17TH/18TH CENTURY
The heavily cast, bulbous body is raised on three truncated supports and tapers towards the waisted neck from which a pair of faceted openwork handles projects below the everted rim. The base is cast with a four-character seal mark, yutang qingwan (Pure Treasure of the Jade Hall or Pure Treasure of Yutang). The patina is of brownish-olive color.
7¼ in. (18.5 cm.) across handles

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Lot Essay

The mark, yutang qingwan, can also be found as a title strip on two small bronze scroll-form water pots: one in the Qing Court Collection illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - Small Refined Articles of the Study, Shanghai, 2009, pp. 6-7; the other in the Blumenfield Collection sold at Christie's New York, 22 March 2012, lot 1259. The same mark can also be seen on a bronze tripod censer of a different shape in Mr. Yang Ping Zhen's collection of Ming and Qing bronze censers illustrated in Jin Yu Qing Yan, National Museum of History, 1996, p. 120, no. 17.

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