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Lot 276
A parcel-gilt bronze rectangular censer, fangding Ming Dynasty
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4 December 2008, 12:00 HKT
Hong Kong, Six Pacific PlaceHK$90,000 - HK$120,000
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Find your local specialistA parcel-gilt bronze rectangular censer, fangding
Ming Dynasty
Cast standing on four flat blade-shaped legs incised with the design of stylised birds and set at forty-five degree angles to the corners, the rim with two upright lug handles and on the four corners with key-fret flanges, with further flanges dividing each of the sides, the body cast in shallow relief on each side with a taotie mask against a diaper ground below a band of confronting stylised dragons, the detail of the designs highlighted in gilt, the centre of the base bearing an apocraphal Xuande mark.
20.3cm (8in) high.
Cast standing on four flat blade-shaped legs incised with the design of stylised birds and set at forty-five degree angles to the corners, the rim with two upright lug handles and on the four corners with key-fret flanges, with further flanges dividing each of the sides, the body cast in shallow relief on each side with a taotie mask against a diaper ground below a band of confronting stylised dragons, the detail of the designs highlighted in gilt, the centre of the base bearing an apocraphal Xuande mark.
20.3cm (8in) high.
Footnotes
明 局部鎏金銅饕餮紋方鼎
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Estimate should read: HK$90,000-120,000














