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12 Circular Gui-shaped Censer with two loop
handles and with fanciful sea animal (haishou) and rolling wave decor
Hu Wenming (active late sixteenth - early seventeenth century)
Ming dynasty, late sixteenth - early seventeenth century
Raised copper with cold-worked decoration, with traces of gilding, and
with an incised intaglio mark in seal-script (zhuanshu) characters reading
Yunjian Hu Wenming zhi in a rectangular cartouche on the base
17.5 centimeter diameter
Clague Collection Number 209
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