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EARLY QING DYNASTY, 17TH-18TH CENTURY
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A LARGE GILT-SPLASHED BRONZE TRIPOD CENSER
EARLY QING DYNASTY, 17TH-18TH CENTURY
The heavily cast censer is of bombe form standing on three cabriole legs and fashioned with two coiled chilong to its rim forming the loop handles. Each of the single-horned beasts is cast with a fierce expression and modelled with a row of nodes that form the backbone, the details of its mane are finely delineated. The censer is covered to the exterior and base with rich gilt splashes. The base is cast with an apocryphal four-character Xuande seal mark within a rectangle encircled by a raised lip.
14 1/8 in. (36 cm.) wide across the handles
EARLY QING DYNASTY, 17TH-18TH CENTURY
The heavily cast censer is of bombe form standing on three cabriole legs and fashioned with two coiled chilong to its rim forming the loop handles. Each of the single-horned beasts is cast with a fierce expression and modelled with a row of nodes that form the backbone, the details of its mane are finely delineated. The censer is covered to the exterior and base with rich gilt splashes. The base is cast with an apocryphal four-character Xuande seal mark within a rectangle encircled by a raised lip.
14 1/8 in. (36 cm.) wide across the handles
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