Lot 3945
3945
A RARE SMALL LATE MING PARCEL-GILT GLOBULAR CENSER
A RARE SMALL LATE MING PARCEL-GILT GLOBULAR CENSER
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A RARE SMALL LATE MING PARCEL-GILT GLOBULAR CENSER

MING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY

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A RARE SMALL LATE MING PARCEL-GILT GLOBULAR CENSER
MING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY
Of archaistic pou form, finely cast in relief around the sloping sides with gilt archaistic taotie masks against a finely stippled ground set between a plain waisted neck and a conforming foot, flanked on either side by mythical beast-head handles suspending loose rings, the recessed base incised and gilt with a Hu wenming four-character mark within a square
3 1/8 in. (8 cm.) wide
Provenance
Gerard Hawthorn Ltd, London, 2007

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Lot Essay

The form of the current censer is one of the rarest among Hu Wenming-marked ritual vessels. Only two other examples of this form appear to be published. The first was included in the Oriental Ceramics Society of Hong Kong and University of Hong Kong exhibition, Arts from the Scholar's Studio, Hong Kong, 1986 and illustrated in the Catalogue, p. 134, no. 103. The other, from the Mary and George Bloch Colelction, was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 23 october 2005, lot 12. Neither of these examples have the ring handles seen on the present example and they both bear a lengthy inscription dating them to 1613.

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