LATE MING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY

A similarly decorated bronze fangding-form censer in the Musée Cernuschi is illustrated by M. Maucuer in Bronzes de la Chine impériale des Song aux Qing, Paris, 2013, p. 98, no. 51, where it is dated late 17^th-early 18^th century. Another related parcel-gilt example dated to the 17^th century, but of smaller size (17.8 cm. high) and lacking the silver inlay and with a Hu Wenming mark, was sold at Christie’s New York, 16-17 September 2010, lot 1017.