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A GILT-SPLASHED BRONZE CENSER
QING DYNASTY, 17TH-18TH CENTURY
The censer is of compressed form, and is cast with two lion-mask handles at the shoulder.
The shoulder and the foot are encircled by a crisply-cast lotus petal band. The censer
is decorated overall with delicate gilt splashes. The base bears a twelve-character mark
reading ‘Xuande ernian Zhou Xi wei Xiuhuang zhuren zhi’ which may be translated as ‘made
by Zhou Yi for the master of Xiuhuang in the second year of Xuande’.
7 ¡ in. (18.3 cm.) diam.
HK$150,000-250,000 US$20,000-32,000
Compare the present lot with a slightly smaller, almost identical censer with the
same mark sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 26 November 2014, lot 2963. The mark
on the present censer can be seen on two gilt-splashed bronze gui, one sold at
Christie’s New York, 17 March 2017, lot 1041 and the other sold at Sotheby’s New
York, 13 September 2017, lot 142.
A gilt-splashed bronze censer with the same mark made for the Islamic market was
sold at Christie’s London, 3 November 2009, lot 228.
Compare also to a similar censer bearing an apocryphal Xuande mark was sold at
Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 December 2009, lot 1970.

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