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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apr 3, 2019 | Sotheby's | Hong Kong | Important Chinese Art | 3706 | $****** - ****** | A PARCEL-GILT BRONZE 'MYTHICAL BEAST' INCENSE BURNER BY HU WENMING |
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15.6 cm (6.14 in)
of archaistic gui form, the compressed globular body supported on a splayed lipped foot and flanked by a pair of separately cast handles, the exterior decorated against a ring-punched ground with two main bands, the lower band enclosing six mythical beasts prancing amidst foliate scrolls below a band of scollwork encircling the rim, the base with a central rectangular cartouche engraved with a six-character inscription reading Yunjian Hu Wenming zhi (‘Made by Hu Wenming of Yunjian’), wood cover and stand