A GOLD-SPLASHED BRONZE INCENSE BURNER, GUI
Xuande seal mark, 18th centuryThe vessel of archaistic gui shape, the bombé sides flanked by two handles issuing from animal masks, the base cast with a Xuande four-character mark, the bronze with a dark brown patina dotted with irregular gold splashes. 21cm (8 2/8in) wide.
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十八世紀 銅灑金獸耳簋式爐「宣德年製」篆书款Provenance: an important European private collection來源:歐洲重要私人收藏The shape of this bronze incense burner is inspired by a late Shang or early Zhou dynasty bronze food vessel, gui. The origin of the gold-splashed decoration on bronze vessels remains a source of speculation. It has been suggested by scholars as possibly taking place during the Shang and Zhou periods, when the appearance of gold-splashing on archaic bronze vessels was regarded as an accidental result of uneven patination of the bronze vessel. Compare with a gold-splashed bronze incense burner,17th century, featuring a very similar body to the present lot, which was sold at Christie's London, 5 November 2019, lot 82.有清一代,仿古之風盛行,乾隆皇帝諭令將內府庋藏的青銅器分門別類,編成《西清古鑑》等譜錄類圖書,引領一代好古風潮。本品爐型仿商周時期重要禮器簋,侈口,束頸,圓鼓腹下垂,圈足微撇。頸飾雙獸耳,彎曲有度。通體灑金,參差錯落,分佈自然。爐底減地陽文「宣德年製」四字篆書款。一件十七世紀銅灑金蚰耳簋式爐,售於倫敦佳士得,2019年11月5日,拍品編號82,可為參考。
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