Chinese Art














An inlaid bronze incense burner and cover together with other metalwares


19th centuryThe incense burner cover with tubular finial within a raised band of archaistic bird designs spaced by raised flanges, the vessel with twin zoomorphic handles and a further central band of bird designs, all raised on three hoof feet, 19cm wide, 13.5cm high, weight including cover 1205g; a cast bronze mirror depicting tree shrews amidst fruiting vines in relief, 12.2cm diameter; a bronze footed bowl relief decorated with archaistic motifs to interior and exterior, bearing four-character archaistic mark to base, 22cm diameter, weight 1620g; a small cloisonné enamel circular cushion-shaped box and cover, 9cm diameter; , together with a lacquer box of marquise-shape and with detachable cover, the top carved with precious objects on a diaper ground, the sides with scrolling lotus.13.5cm wide (8).
|Provenance: Formerly in the collection of the Consul General in Mukden, Manchuria in the 1900s who returned to the UK in 1925, and thence by family decent.