17TH-18TH CENTURY

A gilt-bronze censer of similar form and size, and with similar reticulated decoration, dated to the Kangxi period (1662-1722), from the I. W. Scott Collection, was sold at Sotheby’s London, 3^rd June 1975, lot 37, and again at Sotheby’s London, 11 December 1990, lot 46. A cloisonné enamel censer of similar square, three-tier form and raised on four winged-beast-form feet, is in the collection of the National Museum of China, Beijing. (Fig. 1)