£2,520
Auction: 17 May 2024 from 10:00 BST
清 清華珍品款 仿銅釉方鼎式香爐帶蓋
the oval body supported on four taotie-mask legs, the ribbed body adorned with a band of stylised cicada pattern in low relief around below the mouth rim, the angled cover similarly decorated below the raised dragon heads rim, the body flanked with a pair of loop handles
25cm wide across handles
A comparable rectangular censer with cover with similar brown glaze in imitation of bronze wares, dated to the Qing dynasty, is in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, museum number: Gu Ci故瓷ˊ6072.