OBJECTS FOR THE SCHOLAR'S DESK, Hong Kong 2015
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Incense Implements

A BRONZE CENSER

MING DYNASTY, SIX-CHARACTER ‘DA MING HONGZHI NIANZHI’
MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1487-1505)

WIDTH: 14.1CM

The heavily cast bronze censer is of squarish form with rounded shoulders and a straight neck under a thick lip flanked on either side by twisted rope handles and supported by four squat tubular legs. A six-character ‘Da Ming Hongzhi Nianzhi’ 大明弘治年製mark is cast in relief on the neck under one of the handles.

明弘治 銅胎紐繩紋耳爐
    「大明弘治年製」款