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A bronze reticulated incense burner with cover, Qing dynasty (1644-1912).

Estimate
8 000 - 10 000 SEK
713 - 891 EUR
728 - 910 USD
Hammer price
34 000 SEK
Purchasing info
For condition report contact specialist
Cecilia Nordström
Stockholm
Cecilia Nordström
Senior specialist Asian Ceramics and Works of Art, European Ceramics and Glass
+46 (0)739 40 08 02
A bronze reticulated incense burner with cover, Qing dynasty (1644-1912).

Cast with Xuande six character mark. Oval shape with mascaron handles. Decorated with five clawed dragons and phoenix birds chasing the flaming pearl. Around the sides mythical creatures. Length 33 cm. Height 32.5 cm.

One wing broken off, a whiskar missing, wear.

Exhibitions

See a related bronze censer sold at Bonhams, Fine Chinese Art, Thursday, May 2015, lot 71,

Literature

Compare a similar covered incense burner with design of dragons, phoenix and sea cratrues, illustrated by P. K. Hu, Later Chinese Bronzes, Tha Saint Louis Art Museum and Robert E Kresko Collections, Saint Louis, 2008, pp. 100-101, no. 18.
Also see a related covered rectangular incesnse burner, illustrated by C. Brown and A. Gully, eds China's Renaissance in Bronze: The Robert H. Clague Collection of Later Chinese Bronzes 1100-1900, 1993, p. 111, no 21.