A SILVER WIRE CENSER, 17TH CENTURYChina. The base inlaid with two-character Shisou mark. The Bombé-form vessel inlaid with silver wire to form a design of taotie masks, the sides with opposing inlaid loop handles, supported on a lipped foot. Provenance: Hungarian private collection.Condition: Superb condition with old wear and only a few tiny nicks.Weight: 845.8 grams not including the wooden lid.Dimensions: Diameter 16.5 cm.Old wooden lid. (2)Compare with an identical censer at Sotheby’s New York, in ‘Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art’, September 16th, 2014, lot 586. A 17th century censer with similar decoration but an apocryphal Xuande mark is illustrated in Robert D. Mowry, China's Renaissance in Bronze: The Robert H. Clague Collection of Later Chinese Bronzes 1100-1900, Phoenix, 1993, no. 15.十七世紀銅錯銀蓋爐中國。底部有錯銀"石叟"二字款。爐身可見饕餮紋，兩側獸首形雙耳，圈足外撇。來源：匈牙利私人收藏品相：極好，老磨損和些微刻痕重量：845.8 克不含木蓋尺寸：直徑 16.5 厘米.