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A LARGE GILT-SPLASHED BRONZE CENSER, GUI

17TH-18TH CENTURY
The censer is cast on each side with a taotie mask centered on a fange and reserved on a leiwen band
interrupted by dragon-head handles, and is raised on a foot encircled by pairs of serpents on a leiwen band,
all splashed with gold. The base is cast with a twelve-character mark in seal script Xuande ernian Zhou Yi
wei Xiuhuang zhuren zhi (‘Made for the master Xiuhuang by Zhou Yi in the second year of Xuande’).
17Ω in. (44.5 cm.) across handles

$40,000-60,000

Compare a very similar censer of the same size, but with a diferent inscription, Xuande ernian Zhou Xiyu
xiuzhu zhai zhuren zhi (‘Zhou Xiyu of the Xiuzhu Studio made this in the second year of (the) Xuande
(reign), sold at Christie’s New York, 22 March 1999, lot 76.
明末/清十八世紀 銅灑金簋式爐 「宣德二年周義為修篁主人製」款

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