A GOLD-SPLASHED BRONZE INCENSE BURNER, GUI
Xuande six-character mark, 17th/18th centuryThe archaistic body rising from a spreading foot to a gently-flared rim, cast with a pair of animal-mask handles suspending beaded rings, the base cast with an apocryphal Xuande six-character mark, decorated with irregular gold splashes. 10.2cm (4in) wide.
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十七/十八世紀 銅灑金獸耳簋式爐「大明宣德年制」楷書款Provenance: Sotheby's London, 13 May 2009, lot 239 (part lot)An important European private collection來源:倫敦蘇富比,2009年5月13日,拍品編號239(部分)歐洲重要私人收藏Cast with a bombé body embellished with a pair of animal-mask handles, the present vessel displays a powerful shape resembling bronze food ritual vessel, gui, of the Shang and Zhou dynasty. Archaistic vessels were normally employed as models for incense burners or ritual vessels, as subtle allusions to the ancient Chinese past.Compare with a related gold-splashed bronze incense burner decorated with animal masks, early 18th century, in the Cernuschi Museum, Paris, illustrated by M.Maucuer, Bronzes de la Chine Imperiales Song au Qing, Paris, 2013, p.128, no.76.爐型仿商周時期重要禮器簋,唇口外撇,短束頸,微鼓腹,高圈足。兩側塑獸耳,猙獰威武,下銜浮雕連珠環。爐底有減地陽文「大明宣德年製」六字楷書款。通體灑金,精工美型。參考巴黎賽努奇亞洲藝術博物館藏一例十八世紀早期銅灑金獸耳爐,收錄於M.Maucuer著,《Bronzes de la Chine Imperiales Song au Qing》,巴黎,2013年,頁128,編號76。
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