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A RARE HEAVILY CAST BRONZE TRIPOD CENSER A LARGE SILVER-INLAID GILT-BRONZE FANGDING-FORM
17TH-18TH CENTURY ARCHAISTIC CENSER
The compressed body with galleried rim is supported on three short waisted LATE MING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY
feet. The base is cast with a six-character mark within a recessed square The vessel is cast in shallow relief around the rectangular body with a wide
reading renchen Gao Yiyi zhi (made in the renchen year [corresponding to 1652, band of taotie masks separated by flanges inlaid with key-fret below a narrow
1712 or 1772] by Gao Yiyi). band of stylized long-tailed birds, all reserved on a diaper ground. The body is
7in. (17.7 cm.) wide, fitted cloth box raised on tall fish-form legs and is surmounted by a pair of bail handles rising
from the rim.
$20,000-30,000 8¿ in. (20.6 cm.) across handles, hardwood cover with Yuan-Ming dyansty
jade finial, hardwood stand
十七/十八世紀 銅三足爐 「壬辰高以一製」款 $40,000-60,000
PROVENANCE:
Imperial Oriental Art, New York.
Private collection, New York.
A similarly decorated bronze fangding-form censer in the Musée Cernuschi is
illustrated by M. Maucuer in Bronzes de la Chine impériale des Song aux Qing,
Paris, 2013, p. 98, no. 51, where it is dated late 17 -early 18 century. Another
th
th
related parcel-gilt example dated to the 17 century, but of smaller size (17.8
th
cm. high) and lacking the silver inlay and with a Hu Wenming mark, was sold
at Christie’s New York, 16-17 September 2010, lot 1017.

844 (inscription)
晚明十七世紀 鎏金銅錯銀饕餮紋方鼎
來源:
Imperial Oriental Art, 紐約
私人珍藏, 紐約
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