A PARCEL-GILT BRONZE INCENSE BURNER

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A PARCEL-GILT BRONZE INCENSE BURNER
HU WENMING MARK, 16TH CENTURY

The coppery-bronze, bombé vessel cast with a band of mythical creatures leaping out of and over breaking waves below a band of the Eight Daoist Symbols, babao, below the everted rim, a band of ruyi scrolls encircling the spreading foot, the two handles with dragon-head terminals, the details gilded, the base with a gilt four-character seal mark, Hu Wenming zhi, later wood cover with melon-form carnelian finial--6½in. (16.5cm.) across handles

拍品专文

Hu Wenming was active in the late 16th-early 17th century

Compare the similar censer with the six-character mark, Yunjian Hu Wenming zhi, in intaglio seal script, in the Robert H. Clague Collection, included in the exhibition of the collection, China's Renaissance in Bronze, Phoenix Art Museum, September 25, 1993-January 30, 1994, Catalogue no. 12. Compare, also, another similar censer included in the exhibition, Treasures from the Palace Museum, Tokyo, 1992, Catalogue no. 91