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A RARE GOLD-SPLASHED BRONZE ELEPHANT-HEAD- Heavily cast with a rounded body rising from a short spreading foot
HANDLED INCENSE BURNER, GUI and finely decorated with irregular spots and flakes of gold, the present
Gu Shi mark, 17th/18th century vessel is notable for its subtle elegance and pleasing overall appearance.
The vessel heavily cast with an inverted bell-shaped body decorated
with a bowstring band around the mid-section, flanked by a pair of Compare with a related but larger bronze incense burner cast on the
elephant-head handles, the burner of olive-brown colour with splashes base with a three-character Xuande mark, 17th/18th century, which
of gold, the recessed base cast with a two-character inscription Gu was sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 3 October 2018, lot 3675. See also
Shi translating as ‘Archaic Style’. two bronze incense burners with elephant-shaped handles, Xuande
15cm (5 7/8in) wide. marks, 17th/18th century, illustrated in Kumamoto City Museum,
Special Exhibition of Carved Ivory and Bronze Incense Burners in
£12,000 - 15,000 the Collection of the National Museum of History, Kumamoto, 1997,
CNY110,000 - 140,000 nos.217 and 218.

簋式爐形，口平而微侈，筒形腹，高束脛，直立圈足。肩頸部出雙象
十七/十八世紀 銅灑金象耳簋式爐
「古式」篆書款 耳，象鼻與爐身相連。通體灑金，參差錯落。爐底鑄「古式」二字篆
書款。象耳爐之器型，取「太平有象」之意，寓意吉祥。

Provenance: 比較一件與本例相關但尺寸稍大的十七至十八世紀銅象耳簋式爐，
Christie’s Hong Kong, 6 April 2015, lot 153 「宣德年製」仿款，售於香港蘇富比，2018年10月3日，拍品編號
An important European private collection
3675。另有兩例十七至十八世紀銅象耳爐，皆鑄有宣德仿款，收錄
於熊本市立博物館，《Special exhibition of carved ivory and bronze
來源： incense burners in the collection of the National Museum of History》，
香港佳士得，2015年4月6日，拍品編號153 熊本，1997年，編號217與218。
歐洲重要私人收藏

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