Lot 3589
3589
A SMALL PARCEL-GILT BRONZE JAR
A SMALL PARCEL-GILT BRONZE JAR
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A SMALL PARCEL-GILT BRONZE JAR

LATE MING DYNASTY, INCISED FOUR-CHARACTER HU WENMING MARK

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A SMALL PARCEL-GILT BRONZE JAR
LATE MING DYNASTY, INCISED FOUR-CHARACTER HU WENMING MARK
The jar is cast rising from a rounded gilt foot to a high shoulder, below a short neck and everted rim. The body is decorated in shallow relief with gilt taotie masks on a honeycomb ground, above a band of silver-inlaid keyfret and below further incised keyfret around the neck.
2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

Compare a similar jar illustrated in the Oriental Art Gallery's June 1993 exhibition, Oriental Works of Art, no. 135. Compare also the pou-shaped incense burners, one dated 1613, in Tsang and Moss, Arts from the Scholar's Studio, no. 103, pp. 135-6; and another from the Sir Harry Garner Collection included in the Oriental Ceramics Society exhibition The Arts of the Ming Dynasty, no. 290, pl. 77.

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