A SMALL BRONZE OPENWORK BRAZIER

EASTERN HAN DYNASTY (AD 25-220)

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A SMALL BRONZE OPENWORK BRAZIER
EASTERN HAN DYNASTY (AD 25-220)
The upper, oval section has openwork sides cast with the animals of the Four Directions, and has four tab supports that rise from the rim. The lower section, which is of tapering rectangular shape, is raised on four crouching human supports, and has an openwork grate for a base. A flattened handle at one end curves up to a leaf-shaped terminal.
9 in. (23 cm.) long, wood stand

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Warren E. Cox.
Donald Farm, New Jersey, acquired circa 1959.

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Michael Bass

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Similar braziers are illustrated in Ancient Chinese Arts in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1961, pl. 209; and in Chinese Bronzes from the Buckingham Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1946, pls. LXV, LXVI and LXVII. These examples retain the ear cup that would have rested on the supports at the rim, and also the tray on which the brazier would have stood. A brazier of this type, lacking the cup and tray, was sold in our London rooms, 5-6 July 1983, lot 108, and another from the collection of J.T. Tai sold at Sotheby's, New York, 22 March 2011, lot 201.