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Lot 285
A RARE DUCK-SHAPED BRONZE CENSER
Estimated Value:
2.500 € - 3.500 €
Schätzpreis:
17.000 €
Description:
China, late Western or early Eastern Han period, ca. 100 BC-100 AD.L. 19 cm
The elegantly shaped incense burner, very characteristic for its time, was cast in two parts, the very finely openworked back is removable. Bronze cast in two parts, green and light to dark brown patina.
Important Austrian private collection, acquired in 1989 from Susan Chen in Hong Kong
Publ. Zeileis: 'From Shang to Qing - Three and a Half Millennia of Chinese Bronze', 1999, no. 140, p. 350
A nearly identical comparison piece is from the Qing imperial collection is published 'Bronze Articles for Daily Use - The Complete Collection of Treasures in the Palace Museum', Hongkong 2006, no. 94, p. 112
Partially green patinated, signs of age, wear
