PROVENANCE:
Fred Madden (1938-2019) a family of World War I hero awarded by the French Government. His family's roots began in Arkansas before it obtained statehood.Educated at Little Rock High School Upon graduation Fred moved to San Francisco becoming part of the Beatnik subculture and playing ragtime and jazz piano in clubs. He married Margaret Lillington from Bradenton Florida. They moved back to her home state where he apprenticed in the travel agency field and was the youngest agency operator in the country.A world traveler, Madden visited 168 countries (a country being defined as one which issues its own postage stamps) include such arcane destinations as Tristan da Cunha, the Faroe Islands, Afghanistan's Wakkan Corridor and Upland Togo. Maddens Global Travel agency was the first American travel agency to arrange tourist travel to the Peoples' Republic of China. His trips overseas were always a challenge to find historical artifact of ancient China pieces to bring back to the states to show and amaze his friends. His collection was vast. He was a serious scholar with a fine library on the subject of bronze art. Same Provenance offered on Lot: 81-82, 217-224, and 361-364.

Dimensions: Weight: 1390g, Height: 7.8 cm, Ears width: 15 cm

Chinese Ming Dynasty Bronze Censer. This Bronze incense burner has a round mouth lip, slight deep, globular abdomen, flanked two archaic ruyi shape handles on the mid belly, raised on shorting foot base with slight concave. The whole censer is unvarnished, simple and elegant in modelling, quiet and solemn in spirit, strong and full in lines, warm and humid in patina, and exquisite in craftsmanship.

The Under-base bears a reign mark, a sixteen carved script characters reign mark, Made in The Years of Xuande Reign Period of The Great Ming Dynasty.

Over all in EXCELLENT condition. With normal anomalies in nature, sign of stressed surface, minor scratch & dents, surface traced wear. Normal, consider ages and wear.
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