Antique 18th Century Cast Bronze Chinese Qing Dynasty Censer Xuande Mark, Circa 1780 Drawings & Prints destroyed when his Berlin studio

destroyed when his Berlin studio was bombed in 1944

as he preferred to paint with more spontaneity

The censer is raised on a tripod base with three legs emanating from the mouths of grotesques

The box is raised on four gilt brass ball shaped feet

His work was well received

Antique 18th Century Cast Bronze Chinese Qing Dynasty Censer Xuande Mark, Circa 1780 Drawings & Prints destroyed when his Berlin studioSOLD A fine antique late 18th century Chinese archaic style bronze censer with a Xuande mark. The censer made of cast bronze is very finely modeled, the flared mouth with a key pattern, the globular body below with raised decoration featuring fantastic creatures chasing a flaming pearl in a landscape with clouds. The censer with a pair of handles modeled as the heads of Chinese lions, raised on a flared foot with scrolling decoration. To the base is a