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A GOLD-SPLASHED BRONZE TRIPOD INCENSE 十六至十七世紀 銅灑金押經爐
BURNER 《宣德年》仿款
16TH – 17TH CENTURY
well cast with a bombé body flanked by a pair of handles,
each with a small everted tab, all supported on three
tapering legs, the base with a recessed cartouche enclosing
an apocryphal three-character Xuande seal mark, liberally
decorated overall save for the mark with gold splashes
17.3 cm, 6¾ in.
HK$ 150,000-250,000
US$ 19,200-31,900

A closely related but slightly smaller gold-splashed incense
burner from the J. de Lopes bequest and now in the Victoria
and Albert Museum, London, is illustrated in Rose Kerr,
Later Chinese Bronzes, London, 1990, pl. 7, catalogued as
16th-17th century.

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