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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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