Edward Luper
Specialist, Chinese Works of Art
Lot 9*
A parcel-gilt bronze incense burner Wenming mark, late Ming Dynasty
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12 May 2016, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street£12,000 - £15,000
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A parcel-gilt bronze incense burner
Wenming mark, late Ming Dynasty
Of cylindrical form supported on three bracket feet, finely cast in relief to the exterior with six sprigs highlighted with gilt, variously borne with peach, pomegranate, finger citron, grapes, lychee and orange, all reserved on a whorl-diaper ground below an incised floral band to the rim, fitted box. 8.2cm (3 1/4in) high (2).
Of cylindrical form supported on three bracket feet, finely cast in relief to the exterior with six sprigs highlighted with gilt, variously borne with peach, pomegranate, finger citron, grapes, lychee and orange, all reserved on a whorl-diaper ground below an incised floral band to the rim, fitted box. 8.2cm (3 1/4in) high (2).
Footnotes
明末 局部鎏金銅花果折枝紋三足奩式爐
「文明」金文鑄款
A related 'auspicious flowers' cylindrical incense burner, with Hu Wenming mark and dated to the 17th century, was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong 8 April 2014, lot 236.
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