A gilt-splashed bronze handled vase, Qing dynasty, 18th century | 清十八世紀 銅灑金雙耳瓶 《宣德年製》仿款

A gilt-splashed bronze handled vase

Qing dynasty, 18th century

清十八世紀 銅灑金雙耳瓶

《宣德年製》仿款

the rounded body rising from a splayed foot to a waisted neck and everted rim, the neck flanked with two animal-mask handles, the shoulder and the foot each decorated with a band of lappets, the surface of the bronze covered in a rich toffee patina with irregular gold splashes, the base with an apocryphal four-character Xuande mark within a recessed rectangle

Height 11 ½ in., 29 cm