Lot 1159
  • 1159

A BRONZE TRIPOD CENSER AND COVER QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description

  • bronze
of compressed globular form supported on three elephant-head legs and rising to an everted rim, with cast dragon-handles, fish, and crabs against a wave-pattern ground with high-relief crayfish and reeds, bands of keyfret at the shoulder and above the legs, the cover cast in openwork with a sinewy dragon weaving in and out of clouds in pursuit of a 'flaming pearl' over waves, wood stand (3)