Mirror Pair Chinese Gilt Bronze & Cloisonne Mandarin Duck Incense Burners, each with multi-colored feathers and archaistic designs on a turquoise ground, each with a gilt Lotus Blossom, Lotus Leaf, and Lotus Seed Pod in mouth open for escaping incense, a gilt Lotus Root forming a handle to each cover, the bottom of tail feathers with air intake hole shaped as a Cash-coin. Width 11 3/4 inches (29.7 cm.). PROVENANCE: Private collection, New York.

Light age related wear with a few hairlines and flakes to enamels on each, the end of stem for 1 gilt Lotus Seed Pod loose. NOTE: Any condition statement is given as a courtesy to a client, is only an opinion and should not be treated as a statement of fact. Eddie's Auction shall have no responsibility for any error or omission. The absence of a condition statement does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections, or the effects of aging. We do not carry out in-depth research of the sort carried out by professional historians and scholars, and any statements made by us orally or in writing about any lot concerning attribution to an artist, provenance, period, materials, origin, history, or dates represent an opinion of Eddie's Auction and are not to be relied on as a statement of fact. Such opinions serve for informative purposes only and do not constitute historic or academic scholarship on the works and do not aim to substitute or contradict any such scholarship.