A CHINESE BRONZE MODEL OF WENCHANG WANG.Ming Dynasty.Seated in long flowing robes incised with dragon designs, signed Xue Mingyang zhi below the right shoulder, carved and pierced wooden stand. (2)21cm H.1.05kg.明 銅文昌帝坐像，「薛鳴陽製」款 Xue Mingyang appears unrecorded in the literature, however, a figurative incense burner depicting Laozi is published in Paul Moss and Gerard Hawthorn, The Second Bronze Age: Later Chinese Metalwork, 1991, cat no 39.