AN ARCHAIC BRONZE INCENSE BURNER AND COVER AND A BRONZE 'EAR' CUP Han Dynasty The incense burner raised on three curling legs terminating in hoof feet, the hemispherical lower body fitted with a curved handle, the hinged openwork domed cover pierced with meandering foliage, 14.7cm (5 3/4in) long; the ear cup, of oval form with deep rounded and slightly flaring sides flanked by two crescent-shaped handles raised on a flat base, the bronze with extensive malachite encrustation, 17cm (6 3/4in) wide. (2). Footnotes: Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 漢 行爐形銅熏爐 及青銅耳杯 一組兩件 Provenance: Professor Peter H. Plesch (1918-2013) and Mrs Traudi Plesch OBE (1921-2013), no.B417 (label; the ear cup) Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Winter Exhibition, London, 2006, no.12 (the small bronze incense burner) 來源：英國Peter H. Plesch教授（1918-2013）與大英帝國官佐勳章獲勳人Traudi Plesch伉儷舊藏，藏品編號B417（標籤，青銅耳杯） 展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展覽》，倫敦，2006年，編號12（銅熏爐） Professor Peter Hariolf Plesch, friend and doctor of Albert Einstein, left Frankfurt with his father in 1933. Educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge, he was fascinated by Chinese glass and had the billiard room in his house converted into a private museum. Also a collector of Song ceramics and a long-standing member of the Oriental Ceramic Society, he once lent a ruyao narcissus bowl he purchased from the J.T. Tai Collection to the Society's Song exhibition. See a related pair of bronze 'ear' cups, illustrated by B.Karlgren and J.Wirgin, Chinese Bronzes: The Natanael Wessén Collection, Stockholm, 1969, pl.46. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com