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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
~909
TWO MINIATURE BRONZE VASES 宋/明 袖珍銅壺兩件
SONG-MING DYNASTY (AD 960-1644)
來源:
One is a flask-form vase with taotie mask-and-ring handles, and the other
is a pear-shaped vase of hu-form with ring handles. 山中商會, 大阪, 1945年。
Lionel Rosenberg, 好望角, 南非, 入藏於1967-68年前後.
The larger, 2æ in. (6.9 cm.) high, one hongmu stand, Japanese wood box (2)
$4,000-6,000

PROVENANCE:
Yamanaka & Co., Osaka, 1945.
Lionel Rosenberg, Cape Town, South Africa, circa 1967-68.
EXHIBITED:
New York, Christie’s, Small Pleasures: Chinese Works of Art from an
Important Private American Collection, 15-20 March 2013.

910
A MINIATURE GOLD-SPLASHED BRONZE
RECTANGULAR CENSER
17TH-18TH CENTURY
The straight-sided vessel is flanked by angular handles,
and the base is cast with a three-character mark in seal
script reading qin shu lu (companion of qin and books).
2æ in. (6.9 cm.) wide across handles

$3,500-4,500
Qin shu lu, is the hao of Wu Bangzuo, a Xuande-
period court official in charge of the making of bronze
censers. The same mark is on two bronze tripod
censers illustrated in Jin yu qing yan: Yang Bingzhen
xian sheng zhen cang Ming Qing tong lu, National
Museum of History, Taipei, 1996, p. 121, nos. 18 and 19.

十七/十八世紀 袖珍銅灑金馬槽爐