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A PAIR OF ARCHAISTIC CAST BRONZE VESSELS A CAST BRONZE BOMBE CENSER
Qing dynasty Wu Bangzuo mark, Qing dynasty
Of traditional flattened pear you shape suspended from separately Raised on a short flared foot, the compressed globular body with
cast loop-handles and covered by fitted lids with domical finials, small u-shaped handles and plain interior, the base cast with a sixteen
the exteriors adorned in horizontal ridges and bands of zoomorphic character inscription in a square.
patterns centered on a bovine mask, both raised atop similarly 2in (5.1cm) high; length over handles 6 1/4in (15.8cm)
decorated inset and waisted feet.
9in (22.9cm) 13in (33.1cm) overall with handle $2,000 - 3,000

$2,000 - 3,000 For another cast bronze censer bearing a Wu Bangzuo mark, see the
18th century example sold in our former San Francisco rooms as lot
Examples of Shang and Zhou dynasty prototypes of this You shape 959 in sale 24265 of 18 December 2017
can be found in Tao Wang Mirroring China’s Past: Emperors, Scholars,
and their Bronzes (The Art Institute of Chicago: New Haven and 1176
London, 2018) p64. Wang et al translate the word you as ‘bucket.’ TWO CAST BRONZE INCENSE BURNERS
Xuande marks, Qing Dynasty
1174 The ridged mouth rim raised above a waisted neck and flattened
TWO CAST BRONZE CENSERS globular body, all raised atop three elaborately rendered feet
Qing dynasty surrounding an unusual eight character rectangular reign mark cast
The first of rectangular bombe form raised on four feet and ending to read perhaps Da Ming Xuande nian [?] [?] zhi; the second with
in a flat handled rim, two-character Xuande mark inset on the base; opposing vertical loop handles surmounting a thin mouth rim raised
the second of circular form raised on tripod fee with small handles above a compressed ovoid base supported atop three tapered conical
extending from the rolled rim, two-character Xuande mark in Kaishu feet surrounding the recessed rectangular six-character mark cast in
recessed on the base. standard script.
3 1/2 and 1 3/4in (8.8 and 4.4cm) high 6in (15.2cm) diam. of mouth rim; 6in (15.2cm) width over handles
$1,200 - 1,800 $1,800 - 2,500
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