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Lot 274 Dα

A rare bronze incense burner. Qing dynasty

Auction 1061 - overview Cologne
04.12.2015, 14:00 - Asian Art II - Chinese Paintings, Decorative Arts, Porcelain and Ceramics
Estimate: 400 € - 500 €
Result: 496 € (incl. premium)
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A rare bronze incense burner. Qing dynasty

A rare bronze incense burner in shape of an open blossom with 15 rivets and lobed rim, on three stylized elephant's heads with trunks. At the base an apocryphal six-character mark Xuande. Crack. Qing dynasty.
Height 11.2 cm; diameter 16.5 cm

Provenance

Private collection, Western Germany

Literature

Compare an almost identical piece, illustrated in: Guangcang yadiao ji Ming Qing tonglu tezhan / Ivories and Ming and Qing Incense Burners, exhibition catalogue, National Museum of History, Taipei 1997, p. 61, no. 150