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