204. BRÛLE-PARFUM COUVERT EN BRONZE TACHETÉ D'OR Début de la dynastie Qing A GOLD-SPLASHED BRONZE INCENSE BURNER AND COVER Early Qing Dynasty Of compressed bombé form rising to a short waisted neck and raised on a circular foot, the slightly domed cover with an openwork medallion depicting scholars and an attendant in a garden setting crossing a bridge, covered allover with with irregular gold splashes. 11.5cm (4 1/2in) diam. (2). 清早期 銅灑金鏤空庭園人物紋蓋爐 Provenance: Collection of J.J. Wildgaard, Apenrade, acquired in Shanghai in the 19th century Heberle, Cologne, 16 to 19th December 1901, lot 295 Collection of Franz Xaver Bachem (1857-1936) Published: Franz Xaver Bachem, Meine Sammler-Erlebnisse mit Altchina-Bronzen, Cologne, 1933, pl.65 來源： 奧本羅J.J. Wildgaard珍藏，於十九世紀得自上海 Heberle拍賣行，科隆，1901年12月16至19日，編號295 Franz Xaver Bachem（1857-1936）珍藏 倫佩茨拍賣行，科隆 出版： Franz Xaver Bachem，《Meine Sammler-Erlebnisse mit Altchina-Bronzen》，科隆，1933年，圖版65 A stylistically similar censer with an openwork cover such as this piece, from the Clague collection, is published in Robert D. Mowry, China's Renaissance in Bronze. The Robert H. Clague Collection of Later Chinese Bronzes 1100-1900, Phoenix, 1993, no. 35, pp.170-173.