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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE MASSACHUSETTS COLLECTION
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A 'CALICO' LINGBI SCHOLAR'S ROCK The decoration of butterflies on this censer is very
The rock is pierced with one large perforation that creates depth and volume. unusual. Similar decoration of butterflies can be
The pale brownish-beige stone is peppered with areas of dark grey and seen on a bronze zun, dated to the Ming dynasty,
creamy inclusions and the surface is textured with mottled indentations. late sixteenth to early seventeenth century, in the
15 in. (38.3 cm.) high, softwood stand by Cliff A. Johnson, Los Angeles, Clague Collection, no. 273, illustrated by R. D.
California, 2006. Mowry, China’s Renaissance in Bronze: The Robert
H. Clague Collection of Later Chinese Bronzes
1100-1900, Phoenix Art Museum, 1993, no. 30.
$2,000-3,000
For an example of a parcel-gilt and silver-inlaid
bronze incense tool vase also decorated with
butterflies, dated to the Late Ming- Transitional
馬薩諸塞州私人珍藏
period, early-mid 17th century, see, P. Moss, The
靈璧石供 Second Bronze Age: Later Chinese Metalwork,
London, 1991, no. 98.

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A RARE SMALL PARCEL-GILT BRONZE 'BUTTERFLY' CENSER
17TH CENTURY
Flanked by two spotted animal-head handles, the censer is cast on the
body with large butterflies in various attitudes of flight, surrounded by
smaller gilt butterflies, all reserved on a diaper ground. The mouth is THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
encircled by a band of gilt branches, one side with prunus and the other
with camellia, and the splayed foot is decorated with floral sprays. 1206
6º in. (15.5 cm.) across handles A LARGE BRONZE ARCHAISTIC FACETED
VASE WITH BEAST-FORM HANDLES
$8,000-12,000 17TH-18TH CENTURY
Of a flattened hexagonal shape, the vase has
PROVENANCE: an everted rim and a band of stylized archaistic
Private American collection, acquired prior to 1960.
designs around the upper body. Two mythical
creatures with manes and long tails form the
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handles. The base is cast with an apocryphal
Xuande mark.
15r in. (40 cm.) high
$6,000-8,000
PROVENANCE:
Private collection, Berkeley, California.

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