A small gilt-bronze incense-tool vase
Late Ming Dynasty
The miniature vessel rising from a flattened foot ring to a ovoid body and cylindrical neck beneath a flared rim, cast in low-relief with stylised dragons emerging from turbulent waves and rocky outcrops, the base incised with four-character mark reading Wan Qinghuai zao.
9.9cm (3⅞in) high
The miniature vessel rising from a flattened foot ring to a ovoid body and cylindrical neck beneath a flared rim, cast in low-relief with stylised dragons emerging from turbulent waves and rocky outcrops, the base incised with four-character mark reading Wan Qinghuai zao.
9.9cm (3⅞in) high
Sold for
£7,200
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Provenance: a European lady, collection number N89
Illustrated: Sydney L.Moss Ltd., The Second Bronze Age. Later Chinese Metalwork, London, 1991, Catalogue no.97.
Wang Qinghuai was presumably one of Hu Wenming's workshop pupils. It is said that Wang Qinghuai's style seems stylistically closer to Hu Wenming's techniques than Hu's son, Hu Guangyu, or any other followers.
Category: Asian Art / Chinese Works of Art
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