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11 Circular Covered Incense Box
with orchid and lingzhi fungus decor against a diapered ground
Hu Wenming (active late sixteenth - early seventeenth century)
Ming dynasty, late sixteenth - early seventeenth century
Cast bronze with cast and cold-worked decoration, inlaid silver wire, gild-
ing, and an incised intaglio mark in seal-script (zhuanshu) characters
reading Yunjian Hu Wenming zhi in a rectangular cartouche on the base
7.3 centimeter diameter
Clague Collection Number 239
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