Lot 52
GOLD-SPLASHED BRONZE CENSER
XUANDE MARK, 18TH CENTURY
Auction: 16 May 2018 at 17:00 BST
£12,500
Description
the deep vessel with a wide flared mouth and raised on three elephant-head feet, the metal patinated to variegated tones of brown with irregular gold splashes, the base cast with a crisply cast six-character apocryphal Xuande mark within a recessed rectangle
Dimensions
14cm wide