AN EMBELLISHED BRONZE TRIPOD CENSER AND COVER
17TH/18TH CENTURY
AN EMBELLISHED BRONZE TRIPOD CENSER AND COVER 17TH/18TH CENTURY The inverted bell-shaped body supported on three caparisoned elephant-head feet, and flanked by a pair of elephant-head handles, the sides cast in relief with lotus scroll beneath a fret border, the pierced cover cast with lotus blossoms and tightly-scrolled foliage, surmounted by a recumbent caparisoned elephant supporting a container filled with rhinoceros horns, pearls, coins and ingots, embellished with glass inlay, the base cast with apocryphal Xuande mark 19½ in. (49.5 cm.) high
AN EMBELLISHED BRONZE TRIPOD CENSER AND COVER
17TH/18TH CENTURY
AN EMBELLISHED BRONZE TRIPOD CENSER AND COVER 17TH/18TH CENTURY The inverted bell-shaped body supported on three caparisoned elephant-head feet, and flanked by a pair of elephant-head handles, the sides cast in relief with lotus scroll beneath a fret border, the pierced cover cast with lotus blossoms and tightly-scrolled foliage, surmounted by a recumbent caparisoned elephant supporting a container filled with rhinoceros horns, pearls, coins and ingots, embellished with glass inlay, the base cast with apocryphal Xuande mark 19½ in. (49.5 cm.) high
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