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THREE BRONZE TRIPOD CENSERS AN ARCHAISTIC GOLD-AND-SILVER INLAID BRONZE GOOSE-FORM
16TH-19TH CENTURY POURING VESSEL, ZUN
18TH-19TH CENTURY
The frst is cast with bagua trigrams, symbolizing the eight natural
The well-cast goose is shown standing on webbed feet. Its long
phenomena, between two bands of auspicious emblems. A maker’s curved neck is decorated with two bands of archaistic scroll, and a
tubular spout extends from the open beak terminating in a circular
mark, Yunjian Hu Wenming zhi (made by Hu Wenming of spout. The slightly raised wings are decorated with archaistic
medallions, leiwen, scrolls and key-fret design, terminating in
Yunjian), is inscribed in a gilded rectangular cartouche on the base. V-shaped feathers tapering towards the tips. The raised neck of the
vessel is tiered with two bands of foral and archaistic design. The tail
The second is raised on four short columnar feet, the censer is cast on feathers are incised with naturalistic markings.
12 in. (30.5 cm.) high
the sides with four quatrefoil panels, each enclosing a different fower
$20,000-30,000
within a leafy scroll border. The third is raised on four ruyi-form feet,
PROVENANCE:
and two Buddhist lions resting their right paw on a brocade ball are
Thomas Jefferson Penn (1875-1946) and
cast on the rim. The base is cast with an apocryphal Xuande mark. Margaret Beatrice Schellkopf Penn (1881-1965) Collection,
Chinqua Penn Plantation, Reidsville, North Carolina.
3Ω in. (8.9 cm.) high; 4æ in. (11.8 cm.) diam., wood cover; 5Ω in. The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York.
(14 cm.) diam. (3) 清十八/十九世紀 銅錯金銀雁形尊
$6,000-8,000 銅爐三件
明十六世紀/清十九世紀
