A RARE ARCHAIC BRONZE 'DUCK' INCENSE BURNER AND COVER WITHIN A BOWLMid Western Han DynastyAffixed within a bowl to simulate a swimming duck when filled with water, the feathery bird standing on two webbed feet, its body defined by a pair of wings with feathers swept backwards with beak tightly closed, the back fashioned as a removable cover worked in reticulated archaistic scrolls.23.2cm (9 1/8in) diam.Provenance: 西漢中期 青銅鴨形熏爐Provenance:The Sze Yuan Tang Collection, Hong Kong Hong Kong, 24 November 2013, lot 565來源：香港思源堂舊藏香港邦瀚斯，2013年11月24日，編號565Incense burners in the form of waterfowl was first created during the Han dynasty and revived during the Song and Yuan dynasties. See an almost identical excavated example also dated to the Western Han dynasty, unearthed from tomb no.3 of Zoumaliang, Guchengtancun, Niujialiang, Yuyang district, Yulin, Shaanxi province in 1999, in the Institute of Cultural Relics Preservation at Yulin, Shaanxi province, illustrated inBronzes from Northern Shaanxi. Volume V, Chengdu, 2009, p.955, accession no.YL26.此類鴨形熏爐最早見於漢代，後於宋代及元代再度流行。類似的西漢鴨形熏爐可見於陝西省文物局，原於1999年陝西榆林走馬梁3號墓群出土，並載於《陝北出土青銅器》，卷五，成都，2009年，頁955，編號YL26。