A MING PARCEL-GILT BRONZE CYLINDRICAL TRIPOD CENSER

Lot 1968

1968

Details

A MING PARCEL-GILT BRONZE CYLINDRICAL TRIPOD CENSER
WANLI PERIOD, CIRCA 1600

The slightly tapered sides decorated with four seasonal flowers, prunus, lotus, camellia and hibiscus, all gilded and reserved on a star diaper ground between silver-inlaid bands of key-fret, raised on three gilded butterfly supports
3 1/2 in. (8.8 cm.) high

Provenance

Acquired in Hong Kong, 2003

Literature

Sydney L. Moss, The Literati Mode, London, 1986, no. 144

Sale room notice

Please note that this piece can be attributed to the Hu Wenming workshops.

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Lot Essay

Compare two similar parcel-gilt tripod censers similarly decorated with flower sprays reserved on a diaper-ground: the first illustrated in Documentary Chinese Works of Art: In Scholars' Taste, Sydney L. Moss Ltd., London, 1983, pp. 224-5, no. 157; and the second sold in Christie's New York, 22 March 2007, lot 197. See, also, the similar censer sold at Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 8 October 2006, lot 1153.

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