Lot Essay
For a discussion of related bronzes, cf. Tsang and Moss, Chinese Metalwork of the Hu Wen Ming Group, International Asian Antiques Fair, Hong Kong, 1984, pl. 46; and Sydney Moss, The Second Bronze Age, Later Chinese Metalwork, nos. 88 and 89. For an incense box and cover by Zhu Zhengming in the Victoria and Albert Museum, cf. Rose Kerr, Later Chinese Bronzes, pl. 42. Compare also with two gui censers with mythical beast by Zhu Zhenming of Yunjian, one included in the exhibition Documentary Chinese Works of Art in Scholar's Tase, Sydney L. Moss Ltd., 1983, Catalogue, no. 161; the other sold in these Rooms, 31 March 1992, lot 981