Lot 45
LARGE BRONZE TRIPOD CENSER
XUANDE MARK, LATE MING/EARLY QING DYNASTY
Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art
Auction: 15 May 2019 at 17:00 BST
£6,875
Description
the heavily cast, compressed globular body rising to a short neck with a wide everted lipped rim, supported on three paw feet issuing from lion masks, the masks repeated as the twin handles, the underside cast with an apocryphal six-character Xuande mark within a rectangle
Dimensions
26.5cm wide
Footnote
Provenance:
From the collection of Sir Robert Stodart Lorimer, KBE (1864– 1929); thence by direct family descent & on loan to Kellie Castle.