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The life dates and biography of Shisou are far from clear. In traditional connoisseurship, he is believed to have lived at
the end of the Ming dynasty, although he is unrecorded in historical documents. The type of work associated with him
is very fine silver inlay mostly executed in objects for the scholar's desk.
Many of the silver inlay bronzes with a Shisou mark are traditionally dated to the sixteenth or seventeenth century,
including the four scholar’s objects in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, illustrated by Rose Kerr, Later Chinese
Bronzes, London, 1990, p. 64.
A closely related vessel of Shisou type in the Clague collection is illustrated by Robert Mowry, where he also
discusses the problem of Shisou in China's Renaissance in Bronze, Phoenix Art Museum, 1993, pp.191-193.
