A gold-splashed bronze incense burner, gui
Xuande four-character mark, Qing DynastyOf bombé form decorated with a stylised ruyi band beneath a waisted neck decorated with a twisted-rope pattern, the sides with a pair of s-shaped handles beneath a channelled mouthrim, decorated overall with irregular gold splashes. 10cm (4in) wide.
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清 銅灑金簋式爐「宣德年製」楷書橫款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The shape of the present incense burner appears to have been directly inspired by a ritual bronze food vessel, gui, employed to present sacrificial offerings to the ancestors during the Shang and Zhou dynasties. Compare with two related gold-splashed bronze incense burners, gui, 17th century, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated by C.K.Chen, A Special Exhibition of Incense Burner and Perfumers Throughout the Dynasties, Taipei, 1994, pp.196-197, nos.51 and 52.爐型仿商周時期重要禮器簋。對比台北國立故宮博物院館藏兩例十七世紀銅灑金簋式爐,收錄於陳擎光著,《故宮歷代香具圖錄》,台北,1994年,頁196-197,編號51與52。
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