Bronze Censer (17th - 18th century)

Dimensions:

  27.50cm high (  10.83 inches high)



A fine, well cast and large oblong Censer, decorated around the sides with mythical animals and dragons among waves. The lid cast in openwork with more dragons. The base has an apocryphal Xuande seal mark

ref.4916

Literature:
For a very similar censer see: Mowry, China's Renaissance in Bronze. The Robert Clague Collection of Later Chinese Bronzes 1100 - 1900, Phoenix Art Museum 1993, No.21 p.111

Condition:
excellent