Antique 18th Century Cast Bronze Chinese Qing Dynasty Censer Xuande Mark, Circa 1780 Paintings The chair with a carved

The chair with a carved back crest with scrolled interlaced carving below and a pair of turned finials to each side

of the College of the City of New York

A brother to Birdcatcher

a blue field with golden lilies

The addition of the squash blossom motifs to the necklaces began in the late 1800s

Antique 18th Century Cast Bronze Chinese Qing Dynasty Censer Xuande Mark, Circa 1780 Paintings The chair with a carvedSOLD 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