A heavy cast bronze incense burner type 'gui' with silver inlays

Description:

China, 17th/18th cent.
B. 30,5 cm
Bulbous body on a slightly flared foot, two large side handles. Fine silver-inlaid decoration in archaic style around the body. Weight: 3,442 kg
Collection Klaus Nierhoff (1926 - 2011), acquired at Lempertz in Köln on 28.11.1975, lot 2544 (old description and collection entry preserved) - Minim. traces of age