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Jan Van Beers
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Bronze Censer
( China
17th century to 18th century
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Dimensions
27.50cm high
( 10.83 inches high)
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Literature:
For a very similar censer see: Mowry, China's Renaissance in Bronze. The Robert Clague Collection of Later Chinese Bronzes 1100 - 1900, Phoenix Art Museum 1993, No.21 p.111
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Condition:
excellent
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Description / Expertise
A fine, well cast and large oblong Censer, decorated around the sides with mythical animals and dragons among waves. The lid cast in openwork with more dragons. The base has an apocryphal Xuande seal mark
ref.4916
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