ZHIZHENG FOUR-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1341-1370)

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A BRONZE TWIN-HANDLED TRIPOD CENSER
ZHIZHENG FOUR-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1341-1370)
The censer is cast with a compressed body which is raised on three tapered legs. The rim is decorated with a pair of upright loop handles that flank the short neck and flat, everted rim. There are traces of gilt decoration to the body. The base bears a cast ‘Zhizheng nian zao’ reign mark.
4 ½ in. (11.5 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

Bronze censers from this time period are very rare. Another known tripod censer of a different design bearing a dedicatory inscription dating to the Zhizheng period is found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, accession no. 2016.244 and was previously sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 3 December 2015, lot 455. A censer in the form of a luduan also with an inscription dating to the Zhizheng reign was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 4 April 2017, lot 60.

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