Lot 4
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Brûle-parfum en bronze doré et groupe en bois sculpté Chine, dynastie Ming et Qing, XVIIE et XVIIIE siècle

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 EUR
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Description

  • bronze et bois
le brûle-parfum en forme de chimère à quattre pattes, une coupelle dans la gueule, chevauchée par une grenouille tenant une coupe à oreille, marque à quatre caractères Xuande à la base, le groupe représentant cinq personnages attablés à l'ombre d'un pin au tronc noueux

Provenance

Collection particulière allemande.

Condition

Some expected wears to the gilding (visible on the photo) ; a pitted area/ cast default to the rear of the animal, to the upper left of his back right leg ; some expected age cracks and minor losses to the wood carving (the tip-end of one twig to the reverse, the end of another in the front (visible in the upper center in between the pine tree branches on the photograph) , the actual color of the wood is slightly darker than the illustration would suggest.
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