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A RARE BRONZE ‘ELEPHANT’ TRIPOD
INCENSE BURNER
Ming Dynasty
Of cylindrical form, set on three elephant head feet
and flanked by two large elephant-head handles,
the base cast with a four-line inscription and Xuande
date reading ‘Made by Wu Bangzuo, Supervisor
Ministry of Works, in the Fifth Year of Xuande of the
Great Ming’.
22.5cm (8 7/8in) wide.
£3,000 - 5,000
CNY27,000 - 45,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve.
本拍品不設底價

明 銅寶象三足爐
「大明宣德五年監督工部官臣吳邦佐造」楷書鑄款

See a related bronze tripod cylindrical incense
burner with elephant feet, late Ming/early Qing,
Xuande mark, which was sold at Sotheby’s Hong
185 Kong, 6 April 2016, lot 3681.

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A BRONZE ‘BAGUA’ TRIPOD INCENSE
BURNER
Incised Hu Wenming four-character mark,
17th century
Of cylindrical form, set on three beast-mask feet, the
body cast with a central band of the bagua or ‘Eight
Trigrams’, within borders of Buddhist and Daoist
auspicious emblems.
9cm (3 1/2in) high.
£800 - 1,200
CNY7,200 - 11,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve.
本拍品不設底價

十七世紀 銅八卦紋奩式爐
「胡文明製」篆書刻款

See a related example illustrated by Lin Pe-yu,
Censers, Incense Burners and Hand Warmers:
Wellington Wang Collection, Taipei, 2000, no.151;
see another example illustrated by Liu Xirong, Zhong
Ding Ming Xiang: Rong Zhai Xuan Lu Qing Shang,
Beijing, 2010, pp.124–125.

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