A bronze incense burner in shape of a duck. 16th/17th century - image-1

Lot 98 Dα

A bronze incense burner in shape of a duck. 16th/17th century

Auction 1080 - overview Cologne
08.12.2016, 11:00 - Asian Art - Tibet/Nepal incl. Strebel Coll, Chinese Decorative Arts
Estimate: 1.000 € - 2.000 €
Result: 4.712 € (incl. premium)

A bronze incense burner in shape of a duck. 16th/17th century

A bronze incense burner in shape of a goose, cast and finished in two parts, the goose standing with one webbed foot atop a pedestal-style base with archaistic decoration. 16th/17th century.
Height 26 cm

Provenance

Collection Friedrich Wilhelm Schmidtmann (1885-1960), Stuttgart-Degerloch, bequeathed in 1963 to Emilfranz Maurer (1920-2000), Essen