Lot 230
  • 230

A LARGE BRONZE CENSER WITH COVER (GUI) QING DYNASTY, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description

  • Bronze
supported on a flared foot and flanked by a pair of loop handles with pendent hooked tabs issuing from a pair of horned animal heads, the underside with archaistic cross-hatched pattern, the patina a dark reddish-brown, the associated cover surmounted with a large Buddhistic lion (2)

Provenance

Collection of Emanuel Gran.
Collection of Bayard Rustin, acquired in 1961.

Literature

Thomas M. Shaw, Bayard Rustin as art collector: a study of selections of African, Asian and European art in the collection of a prominent African American, Kean College, New Jersey, 1989, p. 45, no. 27.