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An Exquisitely Carved Silver Incense Burner
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Pre 1900 item# 448426 (stock# lot123)
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Roy Hu's Asian Art
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Description: A beautiful silver alloyed incense burner was delicately decorated. It was the repousse technique, using hammer and chasing tools to make the design stand out from thin sheet metal. With motifs of bats, peaches, plums, pomegranates and tendrils etc. in metaphor, they were all the lucky symbols Chinese people loved. A small size like this piece was rarely seen. An inscription " XU DE TANG" -Hall of Integrity was on the bottom.
Date: circa 1950.
Material: Silver alloyed.
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A Rare Bronze Seal of Han Dynasty(206BC-220AD)
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Pre AD 1000 item# 445586 (stock# lot115)
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Description: A bronze seal of Han dynasty with inscription of Zhen-Chen was uniquely
molded as a crouching bear as the knob. With beautiful blue-green verdigris and red tan underneath, this bronze piece was used by a middle ranking official ( In Han dynasty the knob figures of bronze seals were all categorized by official rankings, for example, the chimera figure was for king's only). The motif - a bear, was common seen in Han's picturesque relics but was rarely seen in bronze seal piec ...click for details
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