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Lot Essay
The inscription on one side of this incense burner is a cyclical date Daoguang, jiu nian meng dong ji ri li (made on an auspicious day in the winter of the ninth year of Daoguang), corresponding to 1829. The other inscription notes that the incense burner is respectfully offered by "disciple Zeng Longchang."
This classic form of incense burner first appears in the early Ming dynasty and continues in wide use at the court, in temple halls and in the scholar’s studio throughout the Qing dynasty. It is rare to find an example such as the present censer, which retains its original stand and is dated by an inscription.
An 18th-century bronze censer and stand of this form, decorated with gold splashes and with an apocryphal Xuande mark on the base of the censer, is illustrated by P. Hu in Later Chinese Bronzes: The Saint Louis Art Museum and Robert E. Kresko Collections, Saint Louis, 2008, pp. 137-141, no. 28.
This classic form of incense burner first appears in the early Ming dynasty and continues in wide use at the court, in temple halls and in the scholar’s studio throughout the Qing dynasty. It is rare to find an example such as the present censer, which retains its original stand and is dated by an inscription.
An 18th-century bronze censer and stand of this form, decorated with gold splashes and with an apocryphal Xuande mark on the base of the censer, is illustrated by P. Hu in Later Chinese Bronzes: The Saint Louis Art Museum and Robert E. Kresko Collections, Saint Louis, 2008, pp. 137-141, no. 28.