A Chinese bronze qilin-handled oval censer A Chinese bronze qilin-handled oval censer A Chinese bronze qilin-handled oval censer A Chinese bronze qilin-handled oval censer

A Chinese bronze qilin-handled oval censer

Reference: ART1002417

The oval censer is cast with a flaring rim and two fierce openwork qilin handles which grasp onto the rim and the tails trailing over the body of the censer. The censer stands on feet with mask decoration. The base with an impressed apocryphal Xuande mark.