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A GOLD-SPLASHED BRONZE INCENSE The shape of this bronze incense burner is A LARGE ARCHAISTIC BRONZE
BURNER, GUI inspired by a late Shang or early Zhou dynasty HEXAGONAL VASE, HU
Xuande seal mark, 18th century bronze food vessel, gui. The origin of the Qing Dynasty
The vessel of archaistic gui shape, the bombé gold-splashed decoration on bronze vessels The vessel of hexagonal form tapering
sides flanked by two handles issuing from remains a source of speculation. It has been to a flaring foot, decorated on the body
animal masks, the base cast with a Xuande suggested by scholars as possibly taking in shallow relief with a band depicting
four-character mark, the bronze with a dark place during the Shang and Zhou periods, continuous designs of taotie masks framed
brown patina dotted with irregular gold when the appearance of gold-splashing on by symmetrically confronted kui dragons, all
splashes. archaic bronze vessels was regarded as an reserved on leiwen grounds and separated by
21cm (8 2/8in) wide. accidental result of uneven patination of the raised vertical flanges, the shoulders encircled
bronze vessel. Compare with a gold-splashed with a similar band of archaistic designs.
£6,000 - 8,000 bronze incense burner,17th century, featuring 61cm (21in) high.
CNY54,000 - 72,000 a very similar body to the present lot, which
was sold at Christie’s London, 5 November £6,000 - 8,000
十八世紀 銅灑金獸耳簋式爐 2019, lot 82. CNY54,000 - 72,000

「宣德年製」篆书款 有清一代，仿古之風盛行，乾隆皇帝諭令將內
府庋藏的青銅器分門別類，編成《西清古鑑》 清 仿古饕餮夔龍紋六方壺
Provenance: 等譜錄類圖書，引領一代好古風潮。本品爐型
An important European private collection 仿商周時期重要禮器簋，侈口，束頸，圓鼓腹 Provenance:
下垂，圈足微撇。頸飾雙獸耳，彎曲有度。通 An important European private collection
來源： 體灑金，參差錯落，分佈自然。爐底減地陽文
歐洲重要私人收藏 「宣德年製」四字篆書款。一件十七世紀銅灑 來源：
金蚰耳簋式爐，售於倫敦佳士得，2019年11 歐洲重要私人收藏
月5日，拍品編號82，可為參考。

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