拍品 1289
1289
A SMALL INLAID BRONZE CENSER
A SMALL INLAID BRONZE CENSER

17TH/18TH CENTURY

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A SMALL INLAID BRONZE CENSER
17TH/18TH CENTURY
The vessel with silver wire inlay is decorated to the compressed globular body with lotus blooms on scrolling foliate stems and ruyi heads on the feet, a geometric band encircles the rim, the base is marked with a four-character seal mark yu tang zheng wan and two incised characters shi sou.
5 5/8 in. (13.6 cm.) diam.

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Yu tang zheng wan translates "precious trinket of the jade hall". Shi Sou, together with Hu Wenming, was one of the two best known bronze makers of the late Ming dynasty. Rose Kerr in Later Chinese Bronzes, London,1990, suggests the large numbers of bronzes bearing Shi Sou marks might mean the name could have been a trade mark for a numbers of entrepreneurs coordinating the work of several makers. Like this censor, most bronzes bearing the name Shi Sou, translating "old man Shi", are inlaid with silver wire.