Antique Chinese Qing Dynasty Bronze Cloisonne Enamel Censer Insence Burner, 1900 Decorative Arts standing on a compressed foot

standing on a compressed foot

finely inlaid with brass and bone marquetry of floral garlands & swags

Athanasios enthroned in the Byzantine style and painted with egg tempera and heightened with 24 karat gold leaf

Antique Chinese Qing Dynasty Archaic Style Bronze Enamel Champlevé Censer / Incense Burner

the legs having carved Chinese style brackets and corresponding gadrooning

Antique Chinese Qing Dynasty Bronze Cloisonne Enamel Censer Insence Burner, 1900 Decorative Arts standing on a compressed footA good, large, antique Chinese Qing dynasty bronze and cloisonne censer, circa 1900. The lidded censer having a Chinese lion (Shi) to the lid, the body and lid inlaid with floral cloisonne motifs, the sides having handles in an archaistic style, the base engraved and pierced with heart shaped decoration. The underside with a square four character tributory mark. Condition is good, the censer from the estate of a prominent California gentleman.