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A GOLD-SPLASHED BRONZE ‘LION’ INCENSE 十六至十七世紀 銅灑金獅耳簋式爐
BURNER 《大明宣德年製》仿款
16TH – 17TH CENTURY
of archaistic gui form, cast with a compressed body rising
from a short foot to a short neck bordered with thin raised
bands, the shoulder flanked by a pair of lion masks, the
base with a recessed cartouche enclosing an apocryphal
six-character Xuande mark, the exterior liberally splashed
with gold
16.4 cm, 6⅜ in.

HK$ 150,000-250,000
US$ 19,200-31,900

A closely related gold-splashed incense burner of similar
archaistic gui form from the J. de Lopes bequest and now
in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, with similar
lion-mask handles is illustrated in Rose Kerr, Later Chinese
Bronzes, London, 1990, pl. 15 left, dated as 16th/17th
century.

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