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A RARE SILVER-INLAID BRONZE INCENSE BURNER, GUI AN ARCHAISTIC PARCEL-GILT BRONZE TRIPOD INCENSE
Qing wan silver-inlaid mark, 17th century BURNER, DING
The rounded body rising to a flaring neck and everted rim, flanked by 17th century
stylised archaistic animal-shaped handles, the neck finely inlaid with The rounded body cast in three lobed sections, surmounted by
a band of alternating swastika and auspicious-emblem panels above upright loop handles and supported on slightly-tapering column legs,
a band of formal leaf lappets, silver-inlaid two-character mark to the cast in relief with three stylised taotie masks on a leiwen ground, with
base Qing wan (elegant object). traces of gilt remaining on the legs.
19.5cm (7 5/8in) wide. 24.6cm (9 5/8in) high.
£5,000 - 8,000 £1,000 - 1,500
CNY45,000 - 72,000 CNY9,000 - 14,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

十七世紀 銅嵌銀雙戟耳簋式爐 十七世紀 銅局部鎏金饕餮紋鼎式爐
嵌銀「清玩」篆書款
See a similar archaistic parcel-gilt bronze tripod incense burner, Hu
Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Summer Wenming mark, 17th century, illustrated in Later Chinese Bronzes: The
Exhibition, London, 2013, no.13 Saint Louis Art Museum and Robert E.Kresko Collections, Saint Louis,
展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展覽》，倫敦，2013年，編 2008, pp.56-57, no.9. See also a related incense burner, 17th/18th
號13 century, illustrated in Bronzes de la Chine imperiale des Song aux
Qing, Paris, 2013, p.101, no.52
The present burner may have been inspired by an earlier shape
produced during the Xuande reign, illustrated in the Xuande yiqi
tupu. See also a related bronze incense burner, 17th century, in the
Metropolitan Museum, New York, acc.no.29.100.547.

A similar incense burner, 17th/18th century, was sold at Sotheby’s
Hong Kong, 8 October 2014, lot 3304.

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
142 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.