Gigi Yu
Head of Department
Lot 336
A BRONZE TRIPOD INCENSE BURNER
Xuande six-character mark, Ming Dynasty
29 May 2023, 13:00 HKT
Hong Kong, AdmiraltyHK$50,000 - HK$80,000
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Tracy Hui
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A BRONZE TRIPOD INCENSE BURNER
Xuande six-character mark, Ming Dynasty
The compressed bulbous body supported on three tapering conical feet, the rim surmounted by a pair of upright loop handles, the bronze patinated to a rich chocolate-brown tone, the underside with a Xuande apocryphal mark within a recessed rectangle, wood stand and cover.
13.7cm (5 3/8in) wide
The compressed bulbous body supported on three tapering conical feet, the rim surmounted by a pair of upright loop handles, the bronze patinated to a rich chocolate-brown tone, the underside with a Xuande apocryphal mark within a recessed rectangle, wood stand and cover.
13.7cm (5 3/8in) wide
Footnotes
明 銅蚰耳鬲式香爐
陽文「大明宣德年製」楷書款
See a related bronze censer with raised handles and stubby feet, the underside also cast with a Xuande apocryphal mark within a recessed rectangle, Ming dynasty. illustrated in Through the Prism of the Past: Antiquarian Trends in Chinese Art of the 16th to 18th Cenutry,Taipei, 2003, p.82, pl.I-58.
參考臺北故宮博物院藏一件明代冲耳乳足銅爐，見《古色：十六至十八世紀藝術的仿古風》，臺北，2003年，頁82，圖版I-58。