17TH CENTURY

It is rare to find a bronze censer with upright handles raised on a petal-form stand, however, a gilt-splashed example dated to the Kangxi-Qianlong’ period (1662-1795) was included in the exhibition, Later Chinese Bronzes: The Saint Louis Art Museum and Robert E. Kresko Collections, Saint Louis, 2008, p. 137, no. 28. A related censer and stand, but with handles on the body, was sold at Christie’s New York, Marchant: Nine Decades in Chinese Art, 14 September 2017, lot 721.