Lot 3161
3161
A VERY RARE FINELY CAST GILT-SPLASHED BRONZE 'ELEPHANT' CENSER AND OPENWORK COVER
A VERY RARE FINELY CAST GILT-SPLASHED BRONZE 'ELEPHANT' CENSER AND OPENWORK COVER
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A VERY RARE FINELY CAST GILT-SPLASHED BRONZE 'ELEPHANT' CENSER AND OPENWORK COVER

KANGXI CAST FOUR-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

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A VERY RARE FINELY CAST GILT-SPLASHED BRONZE 'ELEPHANT' CENSER AND OPENWORK COVER
KANGXI CAST FOUR-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
The heavily cast censer is flanked by a pair of mythical animal mask handles incorporating a lion's mane and an elephant's trunk, supported on three elephant heads, the surface decorated with gilt splashes. The openwork cover is pierced with leafy scrolls surrounding the finial cast as a recumbent elephant, wearing beaded jewels and draped by an embroidery, carrying gilt treasures on its back. The base of the censer is cast with a Kangxi four-character mark.
8 1/7 in. (20.7 cm.) high, Japanese wood box
Provenance
A Japanese private collection, formed during the 1950s and 1960s

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Lot Essay

It is extremely rare to find a bronze censer bearing a Kangxi reign mark. Compare to a Qianlong-marked cloisonné censer with almost identical form and design, very likely to be modelled after the current Kangxi-period censer, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 April 2000, lot 535, illustrated in Christie’s 20 Years in Hong Kong: Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Highlights, Hong Kong, 2006, p. 276 (fig. 1)

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