Gigi Yu
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Lot 324
A BRONZE TRIPOD INCENSE BURNER
Ming Dynasty or earlier
29 May 2023, 13:00 HKT
Hong Kong, AdmiraltySold for HK$204,800 inc. premium
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Tracy Hui
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A BRONZE TRIPOD INCENSE BURNER
Ming Dynasty or earlier
The compressed body supported on three cabriole legs and flanked by a pair of upright loop handles, the body elaborately decorated with a band of leiwen pattern divided by vertical flanges, the wood cover with a white jade 'mandarin duck' finial, wood stand and Japanese box.
26cm (10 1/4in) high (4).
The compressed body supported on three cabriole legs and flanked by a pair of upright loop handles, the body elaborately decorated with a band of leiwen pattern divided by vertical flanges, the wood cover with a white jade 'mandarin duck' finial, wood stand and Japanese box.
26cm (10 1/4in) high (4).
Footnotes
明或更早 銅回紋三足鼎
Provenance:
Collection of the Hayashibara family
來源：
林原家族舊藏
Compare a tripod incense burner also with a jade-mounted wood cover and wood stand, dated to the 17th/early 18th century, illustrated by P.K.Hu, Later Chinese Bronzes: The Saint Louis Art Museum and Robert E. Kresko Collections, Saint Louis, 2008, no.17.
器型參考一件十七或十八世紀早期銅雷紋三足鼎，木蓋上同樣配以玉蓋鈕，收錄在胡廣俊編《Later Chinese Bronzes: The Saint Louis Art Museum and Robert E. Kresko Collections》，聖路易斯，2008年，編號17。