A rare bronze circular incense burner


Yongzheng seal mark and of the periodOf compressed globular form, the shallow vessel with rounded sides supported on a short foot rising to a lipped rim.21.5cm (8 1/2in) diam.
|清雍正 銅壓經爐「大清雍正年製」篆書鑄款Yongzheng reign-marked bronze vessels are rare. One bronze incense burner cast with a Yongzheng mark in a rectangular line, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Classics of the Forbidden City: Splendors from the Yongle and Xuande Reigns of China's Ming Dynasty, Beijing, 2012, p.265, pl.145. Compare with a bronze alms-bowl, Yongzheng mark and of the period, which was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1-2 June 2015, lot 718.