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           A GILT SPLASHED BRONZE ‘ALMS’ BOWL
           18th/19th century
           Cast with a compressed globular body with a lipped rim surrounded   Provenance
           by a broad shoulder, with gold splashes overall, the concave foot   Mabak Antiques, Philadelphia, 1988
           with an inset six-character mark, Da Ming Xuande nian zhi.
           7in (18cm) diameter, 41 1/2oz (1179gm)            A similar gold-splashed censer of alms bowl shape is illustrated in
                                                             Arts from the Scholar’s Studio, Oriental Ceramic Society, Hong Kong,
           $8,000 - 12,000                                   1986, cat. no. 229. For a second example, see a comparable lot sold
                                                             in Christie’s. Hong Kong, 30 November 2011, lot 3182.
           十八/十九世紀 銅灑金缽











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