Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art

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Lot 586
  • 586

A SILVER-WIRE INLAID BRONZE CENSER 17TH CENTURY

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • bronze, silver
the bombé-form body inlaid with silver wire to form a design of taotie masks, the sides set with opposing loop handles with projecting tabs, the base inlaid with two-character Shisou mark, all supported on a lipped foot

Provenance

Collection of Garfield Horn, Cold Spring Harbor, New York.

Catalogue Note

A 17th century censer with similar decoration but an apocryphal Xuande mark is illustrated in Robert D. Mowry, China's Renaissance in Bronze: The Robert H. Clague Collection of Later Chinese Bronzes 1100-1900, Phoenix, 1993, no. 15.