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Lot 3013
A Pair of Chinese Pewter Tea Caddies and a Covered Porcelain Censer
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Includes a pair of pewter hexagonal tea caddies having side panels incised with alternating flora and seal script, domed fitted covers incised with longevity symbol on top, stamped to underside, and an elegant cream porcelain censer raised on three long masked lion legs, fitted carved wooden cover with reticulated ruyi clouds, all three items come with raised carved wooden stands.

Caddies 7 5/8 in.; Censer 6 1/4 in.

From the Collection of James Lee Burney, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Pewter caddies have multiple pushes and dings; some nicks with loss to edges; bottom is rough with some adhesive remains; censer has multiple areas of repair.