AN INSCRIBED BRONZE 'PHOENIX' CENSER


19th centuryThe deep bowl-shaped body cast with a band of confronting archaistic phoenix against a leiwen ground, flanked by opposing upright curved loop handles set just below the rim, separating two possibly later added inscriptions in seal script, one reading Da Qing Jiaqing wuchen Zhuangzheng shi qian jian zhi (Made under the humble supervision of Master Zhuangzheng in the wuchen year (1808)of the Jianqing reign) and the other Xingyang Yizhuang Jiexiao Ci jiqi (sacrificial vessel of the Jiexiao Ancestral Temple in Yizhuang, Xingyang county), all supported on three cabriole legs. 7 7/8in (20cm) high
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