17TH-18TH CENTURY

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A MINIATURE GOLD-SPLASHED BRONZE RECTANGULAR CENSER
17TH-18TH CENTURY
The straight-sided vessel is flanked by angular handles, and the base is cast with a three-character mark in seal script reading qin shu lu (companion of qin and books).
2 ¾ in. (6.9 cm.) wide across handles

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Lot Essay

Qin shu lu, is the hao of Wu Bangzuo, a Xuande-period court official in charge of the making of bronze censers. The same mark is on two bronze tripod censers illustrated in Jin yu qing yan: Yang Bingzhen xian sheng zhen cang Ming Qing tong lu, National Museum of History, Taipei, 1996, p. 121, nos. 18 and 19.

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