Lot 8. Property from a European Private Collection A gilt-bronze and silver-inlaid incense burner and basin, Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD). Height 24.5 cm; diameter 23.5 cm. Lot Sold 304,800 EUR (Estimate 6,000 - 10,000 EUR). © Sotheby's 2023

Provenance: Gisèle Cröes, Brussels, March 1996.

Literature: Gisèle Cröes, The International Art Fair, New York, and Tefaf Maastricht, March 1996, exhibition catalogue, ill.

Note: Compare a closely related gilt example, excavated in Jiangsu and preserved in the Nanjing Museum, illustrated in Zhongguo meishu fenlei quanji. Zhongguo qingtongqi quanji [Complete Collection of Classified Chinese Fine Arts: Bronze, Qin and Han], vol. 12, Beijing, 1998, pl. 126; and related example, but in bronze, without a tray, in the collection of Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, published online (acc. no. S2012.9.2134a-b). Compare also a related gilt bronze example, sold at Christie’s New York, 2nd April 2014, lot 136; and a closely related Boshanlu and tray, but in bronze with no gilt, sold at Bonhams London, 9th November 2017, lot 189.