Three-tiered Square Metal Censer and Cover

Description:

Three-tiered Square Metal Censer and Cover, China, decorated with incised calligraphies alternating with archaic vessel designs, the box with a reticulated design with three immortals in a roundel, with two-tiered carved wood stand, ht. 5 5/8, wd. 5 1/2 in.

Photographed in an Interior Design magazine article, December 1951.
Estimate $500-700

a nick and some surface scratches to cover, breaks to carvings and age cracks to wood stand, top tier of stand detached.


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