• Dimension: Height: 8 1/5 in (20.8 cm) Length: 11 3/4 in (29.8 cm)
• Estimate From: $25000
• Estimate To: $35000

In style of archaic bronze duck censer, cast in the round as a duck with head facing forward, the back body plumage as censer lid topped with a loop handle, overall finely inlaid in gold and silver wire to outline the feathers, with a warm brown patina and minor green encrustation. Song Dynasty period.

Provenance: Property from an important private collection, New York
熏爐巧作水鳥之形，曲項昂首，喙半張，胸前、腹下，翎毛纖細輕柔。頭頸、足上、雙翼、尾巴，羽翅豐滿，翎毛或直或曲，線條柔美，層層疊疊，豐羽之姿，躍然眼前。雙足半曲，如半臥狀，紮實有力。遙想席設寶鴨燃熏溢香，燃熏時煙隨頸而上，口吐香氣，華貴生趣，何等仙姿，實屬難得。 來源: 紐約重要私人藏家收藏