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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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