£1,250
Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art | 682
Auction: 13 May 2022 at 11:00 BST
清 大明宣德年製雙龍底款 銅鑄開光人物故事圖獅耳香爐
of compressed globular form, rising from a splayed foot to a gently flared rim, flanked by lion heads as handles to both sides, the exterior finely cast on either side with figures in pavilions and garden setting in a cartouche, the mouth rim further incised with flowers in tendrils, the base cast with a six-character apocryphal Xuande mark in a recessed panel flanked by two descending dragons
Provenance: formerly in a private English collection, North London