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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 3, 2017 | Sotheby's | Hong Kong | Important Chinese Art | 3630 | $****** - ****** | A MAGNIFICENT AND LARGE IMPERIAL GILT-COPPER REPOUSSE INCENSE BURNER AND COVER |
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81.5 cm (32.09 in)
Christie's Hong Kong, 28th April 1996, lot 26.
modelled with deep rounded sides flanked by a pair of lion mask handles suspending loose rings, rising from three cabriole legs to a wide everted rim with barbed edges, the exterior decorated in repoussé with lobed cartouches enclosing a stylised bat in flight, clutching in its mouth a knotted ribbon suspending a pair of confronting dragon fish, surrounded by further bats interspersed amongst a leafy lotus meander on a matt ground, all reserved against a cellular diaper ground, the flat rim similarly decorated with stylised lotus sprays and C-scrolls, hemmed with a key-fret band on the sides, the three legs decorated with stylised palmette leaves terminating in scrolled feet, all surmounted by a domed cover with three stepped tiers, the bottom two tiers pierced with shaped cartouches enclosing floral and foliate sprays in openwork, divided by composite floral sprays with interlaced foliate scrolls divided by ruyi bands, the upper tier decorated with a band of alternating floret and foliate motifs divided by reticulated foliate scrolls, below further floral, ruyi and lappet bands, crowned by a bud-form finial enclosed within petal lappets, the interior of the incense burner lined with a metal container with ring handles
