Very beautiful mid to late 1800s Qing dynasty censer. This is a hexagonal three-piece object comprising of a lid, body, base. The statue of Shoulao sitting atop a deer is slightly loose in the rivets, but it’s still sturdily attached to the lid. The staff he is holding in his hand can twist from the side, but is also still sturdily attached. The body of inverted bell form cast in raised relief with lotus flowers and leafy scrolls, dragons with bend backs forming the handles and caparisoned elephant heads forming the three legs, the two-character archaic mark on the base of the body written in seal script. The domed cover reticulated with further flowers and leaf scrolls with Shoulao sitting atop a deer as the finial. Three sections of the heavy casting finished in a chocolate brown bronze patina.