A SMALL GOLD-SPLASHED BRONZE HALBERD-HANDLED INCENSE BURNER, YILU
Xuande six-character mark, 17th/18th centuryThe vessel of archaistic form rising from a short foot to a flaring rim, cast with a pair of stylised chilong handles, decorated to the exterior with irregular-sized gold splashes, the base cast with an apocryphal Xuande six-character mark. 12cm (4 6/8in) wide.
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十七/十八世紀 銅灑金雙戟耳彝爐「大明宣德年製」楷書款Provenance: an important European private collection來源:歐洲重要私人收藏The form of the present incense burner may have been based on a prototype dating to the Ming dynasty. A line drawing of a gold-splashed incense burner, displaying a form nearly identical to the present example, is included in the 'Illustrated Catalogue of of the Ritual Vessels of the Xuande Period' Xuande Yiqi Tupu. The work purports to be the wording of an Imperial decree of 1428 ordering bronzes for the palace. Many scholars, however, have argued that the this work may have been published at a later stage than the Ming dynasty; see R.Kerr, Later Chinese Bronzes, London, 1990, p.18.A related gold-splashed bronze halberd-handled incense burner, 17th/18th century, was sold at Sotheby's London, 5 November 2008, lot 15.此式銅灑金雙戟耳彝爐於《宣德彝器圖譜》可見一例,原型或取自宋代瓷器經典器型魚耳爐;然而就《宣德彝器圖譜》一書的成書時間,學界亦有爭議,參見R.Kerr著,《Later Chinese Bronzes》,倫敦,1990年,頁18。參考一件十七至十八世紀銅灑金雙戟耳彝爐,售於倫敦蘇富比,2008年11月5日,拍品編號15。
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