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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.
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.