A FINE PARCEL GILT COPPER TWO-HANDLED CENSER, GUI

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A FINE PARCEL GILT COPPER TWO-HANDLED CENSER, GUI
YUNJIAN HU WENMING ZHI PUNCHED AND GILDED SEAL, 16TH/17TH CENTURY

Of bombe shape, decorated in repousse on each side in a central band with a winged and fish-tailed qilin rising from waves, with a Buddhistic lion to each side below two small birds and cloud scrolls, all in relief, finely chased and gilded against a punched dark ground, set between two archaistic scroll bands at the neck and foot divided by stylised animal mask-headed handles
6 3/4 in. (17.5 cm.) across handles

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Hu Wenming of Yunjian (modern Songjiang, near Shanghai) is perhaps the most famous name associated with incense wares of this type made for the scholar's table.

A similar example was included in the exhibition, China's Renaissance in Bronze, Phoenix Art Museum, 1993, Catalogue, p. 67, no. 12; and another is illustrated by Wan-go Weng and Yang Boda, The Palace Museum: Peking, Treasures of The Forbidden City, p. 175.

(US$15,000-23,000)

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