A CHINESE BRONZE LUDUAN INCENSE BURNER AND COVER

A CHINESE BRONZE LUDUAN INCENSE BURNER AND COVER
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The mythical beast standing four-square with its tail raised, the head forming the cover hinged to the body at the neck below the jaws, decorated with a scrolling mane and a fierce expression with bulging eyes and bared fangs, 5kg, 32cm.

Provenance: from a private English collection, Heath House, Hampshire. The same collection includes a Louis XVI bureau plat which was originally the working desk of the French Emperor Napoleon III, offered as part of the Country House Collections and Fine Furniture sale at Woolley & Wallis, 16th April 2024, lot 191.

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