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19TH CENTURY
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A large bronze censer and cover
19th Century
The tall tapering body moulded in low and high relief with shaped panels of birds within cloud-scroll cartouches reserved on various geometrical-pattern grounds, supported on five dragon supports on a stepped stand, applied on the shoulder with five upright loop handles, the cover pierced with a row of ruyi-heads, surmounted by a lady musician holding a qin and standing on rockwork above a coiling dragon
92.5 cm high
19th Century
The tall tapering body moulded in low and high relief with shaped panels of birds within cloud-scroll cartouches reserved on various geometrical-pattern grounds, supported on five dragon supports on a stepped stand, applied on the shoulder with five upright loop handles, the cover pierced with a row of ruyi-heads, surmounted by a lady musician holding a qin and standing on rockwork above a coiling dragon
92.5 cm high