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305 The bowl is painted in red lacquer on the
A massive archaistic bronze tripod incense underside with the following dedication in
burner and cover Japanese:
Late Ming Dynasty, with dated Japanese
inscription corresponding to AD 1613 御寺即宗公用
The rounded body raised on three feet each 島津家久公寄附之
issuing from the mouth of a single-horned 慶長十八癸丑年七月
mythical beast, the waisted neck with an
archaistic decorative band of animal heads and This inscription records that the incense burner
scrolls on a leiwen ground beneath the lipped was donated by Lord Shimazu Iehisa for temple
rim and flanked by two separately-cast short use in the seventh month of the eighteenth year,
flaring handles, the domed cover with a similar mizunoto-ushi, of the Keicho era, corresponding
decorative band above the rim and surmounted to 1613. Shimazu Iehisa (1576-1638), Lord of
by a lively Buddhist lion with curling mane and Satsuma, is best known for pacifying the Ryukyu
knobbly spine playing with a reticulated tasselled Islands (present-day Okinawa prefecture) and
ball under the left front paw. 59.5cm (23¼in) bringing them under the control of the Satsuma
high (4). domain, which also enjoyed strong trading links
£5,000 - 8,000 with the Chinese mainland.
HK$59,000 - 94,000 CNY47,000 - 75,000
明晚期 銅仿古獸紋三足雙耳獅鈕蓋爐 日文
(1613年)款
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