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

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.