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713 A BRONZE CYLINDRICAL CENSER A related cylindrical censer cast with a landscape scene and
WITH CRANES with a six-character Hu Wenming mark is illustrated by
R. Kerr, Later Chinese Bronzes, London, 1990, pls. 51-53,
WANLI PERIOD (1573-1619) p. 67. Another censer cast with the ‘Three Friends of
Winter’, but with a stippled ground like that on the present
Of cylindrical form, the censer is raised on three low, stepped censer, is illustrated by P. Moss, The Second Bronze Age,
supports, and cast on the exterior with nine cranes in fight Hong Kong, 1991, no. 50.
amidst clouds on a stippled ground. The base is cast with
the four-character mark, Hu Wenming zhi (‘Made by Hu 明萬曆 銅雲鶴紋爐
Wenming’).
3√ in. (9.8 cm.) diam.

$3,000-5,000

PROVENANCE

Private collection, Wiltshire, England.

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