A SILVER-WIRE-INLAID BRONZE INCENSE BURNER

17TH/18TH CENTURY

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A SILVER-WIRE-INLAID BRONZE INCENSE BURNER
17TH/18TH CENTURY
With compressed globular body raised on a narrow ring foot, the sides inlaid in fine silver wire with abstract, scrolling leafy stems of lingzhi surrounded by clouds, with further silver wire inlay on the pair of loop handles, in an undulating band on the narrow mouth rim, and on the base with a dragon surrounding a recessed square in the center cast with an apocryphal Xuande mark reading Da Ming Xuande wunian jiandu gongbu guanchen Wu Bangzuo zao (made by the official of the overseers office, Wu Bangzuo, during the fifth year of Xuande of the Great Ming)
7 5/8 in. (19.3 cm.) across handles, wood cover and stand

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Lot Essay

The sixteen-character mark cast on the base is similar to that seen on two bronze censers illustrated in Jin Yu Qing Yan: Yang Bingzhen xiansheng zhencang Ming Qing tonglu, National Museum of History, Taipei, 1996, p. 220, nos. 146 and 147. The shape of the silver wire clouds on the sides of the present censer is similar to those on a tripod censer cast on the base with the mark Yu Sun Tang, illustrated, ibid., p. 115, no. 12.

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