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A SMALL GOLD-SPLASHED BRONZE HALBERD-HANDLED The form of the present incense burner may have been based on
INCENSE BURNER, YILU a prototype dating to the Ming dynasty. A line drawing of a gold-
Xuande six-character mark, 17th/18th century splashed incense burner, displaying a form nearly identical to the
The vessel of archaistic form rising from a short foot to a flaring rim, present example, is included in the ‘Illustrated Catalogue of of the
cast with a pair of stylised chilong handles, decorated to the exterior Ritual Vessels of the Xuande Period’ Xuande Yiqi Tupu. The work
with irregular-sized gold splashes, the base cast with an apocryphal purports to be the wording of an Imperial decree of 1428 ordering
Xuande six-character mark. bronzes for the palace. Many scholars, however, have argued that
12cm (4 6/8in) wide. the this work may have been published at a later stage than the Ming
dynasty; see R.Kerr, Later Chinese Bronzes, London, 1990, p.18.
£3,000 - 5,000
CNY27,000 - 45,000 A related gold-splashed bronze halberd-handled incense burner,
17th/18th century, was sold at Sotheby’s London, 5 November 2008,
lot 15.
十七/十八世紀 銅灑金雙戟耳彝爐
「大明宣德年製」楷書款 此式銅灑金雙戟耳彝爐於《宣德彝器圖譜》可見一例，原型或取自
宋代瓷器經典器型魚耳爐；然而就《宣德彝器圖譜》一書的成書時
Provenance: 間，學界亦有爭議，參見R.Kerr著，《Later Chinese Bronzes》，倫
An important European private collection 敦，1990年，頁18。

來源： 參考一件十七至十八世紀銅灑金雙戟耳彝爐，售於倫敦蘇富比，2008
歐洲重要私人收藏 年11月5日，拍品編號15。

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