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Later Chinese Bronzes from the Collection of Ulrich
Hausmann
Hong Kong | 08 Oct 2014, 11:45 AM | HK0558

LOT 3304

A SMALL BRONZE HALBERD-HANDLED INCENSE BURNER, YILU
QING DYNASTY, 17TH / 18TH CENTURY

finely cast of archaistic yilu form, rising to a waisted neck and slightly everted mouthrim,
flanked by a pair of handles cast in the form of stylised halberd, the countersunk base cast
with an apocryphal six-character reign mark within a recessed panel, the bronze patinated
to a warm copper-brown colour
width across handles 11.5 cm., 4 1/2 in.
ESTIMATE 30,000-50,000 HKD
Lot Sold: 81,250 HKD

CATALOGUE NOTE

For a similar incense burner illustrated in the Xuande yiqi tupu, see Zhongguo Shudian Chuban She, Beijing, 2006, p.
246. A closely related example in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, bequested by Mrs H.O. Havemeyer in 1929,
cast with fish handles and similar apocryphal Xuande mark, is illustrated online, accession number 29.100.547.

Fig. 1
After: Xuande Yiqi tupu, The illustrated register of vessels from the
Xuande era