Lot 2715. An unusual archaistic rectangular bronze censer, 17th century; 22 cm., 8 1/2 in. Estimate 200,000 — 250,000 HKD. Lot sold 524,000 HKD. © Sotheby's 2010

of archaic jade form, the rectangular straight-sided body crisply cast with trigrams at each corner and rising from a short splayed foot to a short straight neck with an everted square rim, set to the side with a pair of elephant head handles, the metal patinated to a rich dark toffee tone, the base cast with an apocryphal Xuande six-character mark, carved and pierced wood cover.

Provenance: A French Collection formed in the 1930s (by repute). 
Sotheby's Paris, 12th June 2008, lot 370.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, Hong Kong, 08 Oct 2010