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A GOLD-SPLASHED BRONZE INCENSE BURNER, GUI Cast with a bombé body embellished with a pair of animal-mask
Xuande six-character mark, 17th/18th century handles, the present vessel displays a powerful shape resembling
The archaistic body rising from a spreading foot to a gently-flared rim, bronze food ritual vessel, gui, of the Shang and Zhou dynasty. Archaistic
cast with a pair of animal-mask handles suspending beaded rings, the vessels were normally employed as models for incense burners or ritual
base cast with an apocryphal Xuande six-character mark, decorated vessels, as subtle allusions to the ancient Chinese past.
with irregular gold splashes.
10.2cm (4in) wide. Compare with a related gold-splashed bronze incense burner
decorated with animal masks, early 18th century, in the Cernuschi
£4,000 - 6,000 Museum, Paris, illustrated by M.Maucuer, Bronzes de la Chine
CNY36,000 - 54,000 Imperiales Song au Qing, Paris, 2013, p.128, no.76.

爐型仿商周時期重要禮器簋，唇口外撇，短束頸，微鼓腹，高圈足。
十七/十八世紀 銅灑金獸耳簋式爐 兩側塑獸耳，猙獰威武，下銜浮雕連珠環。爐底有減地陽文「大明宣
「大明宣德年制」楷書款 德年製」六字楷書款。通體灑金，精工美型。

Provenance: 參考巴黎賽努奇亞洲藝術博物館藏一例十八世紀早期銅灑金獸耳爐，
Sotheby’s London, 13 May 2009, lot 239 (part lot) 收錄於M.Maucuer著，《Bronzes de la Chine Imperiales Song au
An important European private collection Qing》，巴黎，2013年，頁128，編號76。

來源：
倫敦蘇富比，2009年5月13日，拍品編號239（部分）
歐洲重要私人收藏

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