£1,512
Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art | 733
Auction: 16 May 2023 at 11:00 BST
十九至二十世紀 大明宣德年製雙龍底款 銅鑄開光人物故事圖簋式爐
of gui form with compressed globular body, rising from a splayed foot to a gently flared rim, flanked by loop handles to both sides, the exterior cast on either side with figures in pavilions and garden setting in a cartouche, the mouth rim and handles incised with flowers in tendrils, the base cast with a six-character apocryphal Xuande mark in a recessed panel flanked by two descending dragons, on a circular base raised on three bracket feet, top decorated with insects within a band of mountain motif with waves