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A gilt bronze footed censer
18th/19th century

Chinese, Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Art and Paintings
28 June 2016, 12:00 PDT
San Francisco

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A gilt bronze footed censer

18th/19th century
Of likely Japanese manufacture, the reticulated convex lid and lion dog finial fitted to the waisted neck surmounting the tapered rectangular shakudo (Ch: chitong) body supporting opposing flared handles and adorned in four pounced gilt ground reserves of lion dogs frolicking amid four different seasonal flowering branches separated by vertical flanges, the entire edifice supported by curving feet.
7 3/4in (19.6cm) width over handles
9 1/4in (23.5cm) high

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十八或十九世紀 鎏金銅花卉紋四足鼎帶蓋

For an example of a piece constructed of a similar medium but for the European market, see the early 18th century Sawasa Ware shakudo and gilt copper coffee urn offered as lot 36 in Christie's digital sale of 8-19 December 2014, Japanese art at the English Court. As pointed out there, though sometimes referred to as 'Tonkin ware,' vessels of this type are more accurately referred to as 'Sawasa Ware'-- from the Dutch term 'Saussa' for Japanese shakudo. See Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Sawasa: Japanese Export Art in Black and Gold 1650-1800, (Amsterdam, 1998). The academic consensus now appears to be that pieces of this type were manufactured with Dutch influence and exported via the island of Deshima outside of Nagasaki, though possibly made by Chinese artisans.

For another example of this material made for the Chinese market, see the early 18th century Sawasa ware snuff box offered as lot 6 in the Speelman Collection of Chinese Imperial Tribute Snuff Boxes in our Hong Kong sale 21607 of 24 November 2013. A fascinating artifact emphasizing the truly international flow of capital in the 18th century, that box even suggested influences from the settlement of Batavia in Dutch Indonesia. See as well the 18th century brush washer in the collection of the Musée Cernuschi, Michel Maucuer, Bronzes de la Chine impériale des Song aux Qing (Paris, 2013) no. 65, p. 119. The Cernuschi bronze was cast in a classically archaistic form of a jue wine cup, possibly meant, like the present lot, to appeal to more traditional literati tastes.

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