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A GOLD-SPLASHED BRONZE RECTANGULAR 十六至十七世紀 銅灑金臺几爐
INCENSE BURNER 《大明宣德年製》仿款
16TH – 17TH CENTURY
well cast with a tapering body rising from four straight legs 來源：
to a gently flared rim, flanked by a pair of handles, each 倫敦蘇富比1990年6月12日，編號38
modelled with an everted arrowhead tip to the straight
upper edge, the gently convex base centred with a recessed
rectangular cartouche enclosing an apocryphal six-character
Xuande mark, the exterior decorated liberally overall save for
the mark with gold splashes
18.7 cm, 7⅜ in.

PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s London, 12th June 1990, lot 38.

HK$ 300,000-400,000
US$ 38,300-51,000

This superbly cast gold-splashed incense burner is of
archaistic fangding form, but the classic shape has been
skilfully modified with exaggerated geometric handles and
a gently curved underside. Another pair of incense burners
of the same distinct form, from the collection of Lord Clark
of Saltwood was sold in our London rooms, 27th June 1984,
lot 6.
For other gold-splashed incense burners of similar high
quality, compare the bronze tripod incense from the J. de
Lopes bequest and now in the Victoria and Albert Museum,
London, illustrated in Rose Kerr, Later Chinese Bronzes,
London, 1990, pl. 15 right, dated as 16th/17th century.
See also a gold-splashed tripod incense burner from the
collection of Ulrich Hausmann, sold in these rooms, 8th
October 2014, lot 3407.

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