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252 Various Owners 各方藏家
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253 A gold-splashed bronze incense
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264 | Bonhams Cast Xuande six-character mark, 17th century
Cast raised on a low tapering foot and flanked
by two handles shaped as mythical beasts, the
exterior liberally splashed with larger and smaller
patches of gold and one side painted in gold with
the characters da shang, the underside with two
dragons in pursuit of a pearl and enclosing the six-
character mark. 18.4cm (7¼in) wide
£8,000 - 12,000
HK$100,000 - 150,000
CNY79,000 - 120,000

十七世紀 銅灑金雙獸耳爐 陽文「大明宣德年製」
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A gold-splashed archaistic wine
vessel, jue
18th century
The U-shaped deep body raised on three blade-
like legs with a loop handle on one side issuing
from a monster mask, the lip flaring at one end and
curving with a long spout at the other between a
pair of posts, the body encircled by a band of two
taotie masks on a leiwen ground divided by vertical
flanges, the vessel scattered with irregular splashes
of gilt. 20.2cm (8in) high
£3,000 - 5,000
HK$37,000 - 62,000
CNY29,000 - 49,000

十八世紀 銅灑金饕餮紋爵
The underside of the belly cast with an inscription
in archaic bronze script:

伯申作寶彞
‘Boshen made this treasured wine vessel’
Tsang and Moss illustrate a very similar gold-
splashed archaistic bronze jue with the same
inscription in Arts from the Scholar’s Studio, Hong
Kong, 1986, no.161, pp.184–5