A Chinese bronze censer of compressed globular form and a retracted foot rim, two handles. Base with Imperial mark of Xuande. Matching bronze tripod stand. 18–19th century. Weight 6973 g and the stand 3453 g. Diam. 24 cm.
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Provenance: The married couple Nadejda (Nadja) Lindemann, née Danilovna Borodina (b. Vladivostok 1898, d. Frederiksberg 1982) and Georg Emanuel Lindemann (b. Copenhagen 1896, d. Frederiksberg 1991). He worked as a telegraph operator for the Great Northern Telegraph Company in the years around the Russian revolution in 1917. In Russia he met his wife in the area around Vladivostok, where they married and settled down. Their son was also born there in 1920. In the late 1930s, they moved to Denmark, bringing among other items this incense burner with them. Thence by descent to their granddaughter with residence in Denmark until today.
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