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A PARCEL-GILT BRONZE INCENSE
HOLDER
MING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY
the cylindrical form with a tall waisted foot,
narrow cylindrical neck, and galleried rim, cast
and chased around the body with butter! ies,
coins, dominoes, shells, blossoming prunus,
beribboned scrolls, a birdcage, and other
auspicious emblems all in gilt relief over a
black-patinated ring-punched ground, the neck
with a gilt-relief scrolling vine against a similar
ground, gilt keyfret bands at the rim and foot,
the recessed base with a four-character mark in
seal script reading Hu Wenming zhi (made by Hu
Wenming)
Height 4¼ in., 10.8 cm
$ 10,000-15,000
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A SMALL SILVER-INLAID BRONZE
BALUSTER VASE
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
of square section, the body rising from a
spreading foot to a waisted neck and galleried
rim, two taotie mask handles at the shoulder
with archaistic decoration in inlaid silver wire,
with a pair of confronting phoenix over a band
of pendent lappets on each side, keyfret and
abstract motifs at the neck, geometric bands at
the rim and foot, an inlaid two-character Shi Sou
mark to the base, traces of gilt throughout
Height 5 in., 12.7 cm
PROVENANCE
French Private Collection.
629 Sotheby’s Paris, 16th December 2015, lot 44.
$ 6,000-8,000
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