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PROPERTY OF THE FENGSANTANG FOUNDATION
               美國奉三堂基金會收藏
               2805

               A VERY RARE PARCEL-GILT BRONZE DOUBLE-            明十六 / 十七世紀
               GOURD CENSER AND COVER                            局部鎏金銅雙獅戲球龍提樑葫蘆式香薰
               MING DYNASTY, 16TH - 17TH CENTURY
               The censer is cast as a double gourd with an over-hanging   來源
               handle decorated with two confronting dragons; the handle is   2015年購於巴黎
               attached to the lower bulb through two brocade balls held in the
               mouths of two crouching lions; the upper bulb is cast with a band   Sydney L. Moss 曾出版一件較小、缺鎏金的相似例,見 1991 年倫敦出
               of lotus petals around the mouth; the cover is decorated with a   版《The Second Bronze Age》,圖 53 號。英國利物浦博物館藏一件乾
               pierced lotus scroll culminating in a floral finial. The base of the   隆掐絲琺瑯葫蘆提樑爐,造型與本品相似,可能受其啟發(圖一)。
               censer is cast with an apocryphal six-character Xuande mark.
               6 ⅛ in. (15.5 cm.) high

               HK$150,000-180,000              US$19,000-23,000
               PROVENANCE
               Acquired in Paris, 2015
               Compare a smaller, ungilt example, illustrated in The
               Second Bronze Age, Sydney L. Moss, London,
               1991, no. 53. Compare also the Qianlong-
               period cloisonnéenamel censer of similar
               form in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, National
               Museums of Liverpool, which was probably
               inspired by the current bronze prototype,
               illustrated in ‘Chinese Art in the Lady Lever
               Art Gallery’, Transactions of the Oriental
               Ceramic Society, London, 1979-1980, no. 12
               (fig. 1).



                                                                                         fig. 1  Collection of the Lady Lever Art
                                                                                        Gallery, National Museums of Liverpool
                                                                                            圖一  英國利物浦博物館藏品




































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