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27. GILT-SPLASHED BRONZE GUI-SHAPED CENSER AND STAND
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The metal of the bombé-shaped tripod vessel is of dark brown colour and applied liberally with dense, brilliant gilt splashes. The circular stand is cast as a lotus leaf with radiating undulating veins and three indented hollows for the legs of the censer. A censer in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, of nearly exact form but with less bold gold splashes and missing its matching stand, is published by Rose Kerr, Later Chinese Bronzes, col. pl. 7, where the author dates the example to 16th-17th century. A number of undecorated bronze censers of this shape with stands, several of them with cast Xuande marks are recorded in Da Ming Xuande Lu Zonglun, pp. 43-57. |
