MING DYNASTY, 16TH - 17TH CENTURY

Compare a smaller, ungilt example, illustrated in The Second Bronze Age, Sydney L. Moss, London, 1991, no. 53. Compare also the Qianlong-period cloisonnéenamel censer of similar form in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, National Museums of Liverpool, which was probably inspired by the current bronze prototype, illustrated in ‘Chinese Art in the Lady Lever Art Gallery’, Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 1979-1980, no. 12 (fig. 1).