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A GROUP OF FOUR BRONZE DESK ACCESSORIES WITH A GROUP OF FIVE BRONZE ACCESSORIES FOR THE
DRAGON DECORATION SCHOLAR’S TABLE
17th/18th centuries 17th/18th centuries
The first a drum-shaped circular box with animal head handles, bands Including a pear-form miniature bottle vase; the second a square-
of raised bosses and a coiled kui-dragon centering the conforming sectioned fangding censer with animal mask handles, the inscription
cover, the base of the box bearing an incised Xuande nian zhi mark bao yong chased into the base area within the four short legs; the
and the surfaces covered in a dark brown patina; the second a third an oval-sectioned censer with curving bamboo branches forming
compressed globular jar cast in high relief with a pair of animal head the four loop feet; the fourth a silver wire-inlaid water coupe with
and mock ring handles separating two kui-dragons grasping lingzhi bamboo branches and a seven-character inscription reading possibly
fungus branches, the worn patina of dark brown hue; the third a zhong shu wei shou, tong ling xue, the base bearing the signature
compressed globular seal ink box cast in high relief with a coiled Shisou; the fifth a paper weight cast as a baby boy holding a lotus
dragon across the cover and a xiangcai band on the lower walls, stem while sleeping on the top of a shoe. [5]
the yellow color of the metal on the high relief in contrast to the dark 2 1/4 to 3in (5.8 to 7.7cm) long
brown lacquer ground; the last a rectangular paper weight cast to the $3,000 - 5,000
top with a kui-dragon looking away from a lingzhi fungus branch at the
top of the weight, the dark brown patina accented with gilt wash. 十七至十八世紀 銅文房用具五件
8 1/4in (21cm) length of paper weight
1 1/2in (4cm) diameter of seal ink box The silver-inlaid bamboo decoration on the bronze water coupe
$3,000 - 5,000 bearing a Shisou mark also appears on an ink cake stand, one of four
desk accessories with a Shisou mark in the Victoria & Albert Museum,
十七或十八世紀 銅文房用具四件一組 ascribed to the 16th-17th century: see Rose Kerr, in Later Chinese
Bronzes, 1990, p. 65, fig. 50.
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