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A RARE PARCEL-GILT BRONZE CENSER, FANG DING

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A RARE PARCEL-GILT BRONZE CENSER, FANG DING
17TH CENTURY, ZHU ZHENMING SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK

Cast and gilt in shallow relief around the rectangular body with dissolved archaistic dragon motifs flanking vertical flanges decorated with key-pattern, reserved on a diaper-ground, raised on high stylised dragon legs and surmounted by two pierced flange handles--8 3/4in. 22.4cm.) high

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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

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