A PARCEL-GILT BRONZE CENSER

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A PARCEL-GILT BRONZE CENSER
LATE MING DYNASTY, SIGNED HU WENMING

Cast around the bombe sides with dragons and fabulous beasts amidst fire scrolls and breaking waves, between a band of stylized phoenix confronted over a ruyi-head encircling the spreading foot and a band of paired phoenix with flaming pearls below the slightly everted rim, all on a finely punched ground, the sides set with animal-mask handles, the base with a gilt panel inscribed Yunjian Hu Wenming zhi (made by Hu Wenming of Yunjian)--6¼in. (15.8 cm.) wide

Lot Essay

For several examples of bronzes by this artist and discussions by Hugh Moss, see the Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong Special Exhibition, Arts From the Scholar's Studio, Catalogue, 1986, nos. 73, 103 and 168

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