Antique 18th Century Cast Bronze Chinese Qing Dynasty Censer Xuande Mark, Circa 1780 Drawings & Prints by the celebrated New York

by the celebrated New York artist

"Société des Bronzes

The artist was born in Le Havre

Anker moved to Paris

numerous books

Antique 18th Century Cast Bronze Chinese Qing Dynasty Censer Xuande Mark, Circa 1780 Drawings & Prints by the celebrated New YorkSOLD A fine antique late 18th century Chinese archaic style bronze censer with a Xuande mark. The censer made of cast bronze is very finely modeled, the flared mouth with a key pattern, the globular body below with raised decoration featuring fantastic creatures chasing a flaming pearl in a landscape with clouds. The censer with a pair of handles modeled as the heads of Chinese lions, raised on a flared foot with scrolling decoration. To the base is a