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A GILT SPLASHED BRONZE TRIPOD CENSER
17TH/18TH CENTURY

of globular form below a short waisted neck and a narrow at
rim with two upright loop handles, all supported on three short
cabriole legs, the bronze of a dark brown patina with irregular
gilt splashes, the base with an apocryphal Xuande mark
11 cm, 4⅜ in.

PROVENANCE
Mallet & Son, London, 1945.

£ 8,000-12,000
HK$ 77,500-116,000 US$ 10,000-14,900

Mallet Son 1945

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A PARCEL GILT BRONZE INCENSE BURNER,
WORKSHOP OF HU WENMING
17TH CENTURY

the cylindrical body with straight sides supported on three
lingzhi feet, the broad band around the main body decorated
in low-relief with various owers including branches of peony,
lotus, and owering narcissus with lingzhi, all set against a
stylised oral-diaper ground, bordered top and bottom with a
band of continuous band of keyfret inlaid inlaid in silver wire,
the relief oral design, the lip and bands around the upper
neck, base and feet all parcel-gilt, the base engraved in seal
script with the six-character mark Yunjian Hu Wenming zhi
(Made by Hu Wenming of Yunjian)
10.2 cm, 4 in.
A censer of this form and decoration but with a Hu Guangyu
mark, in the Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, was included in the
exhibition The Chinese Scholar’s Studio. Artistic Life in the Late
Ming Period, The Asia Society Galleries, New York, 1987, cat.
no. 62.

ಳ£ 6,000-8,000
HK$ 58,000-77,500 US$ 7,500-10,000

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