An archaistic bronze cong-shaped incense burner


Xuande six-character mark, 17th/18th centuryOf archaic jade form, the rectangular straight-sided body crisply cast with trigrams at each corner and rising from a short splayed foot to a short straight neck with an everted square rim, set to the side with a pair of lion-head handles, the metal patinated to a rich dark toffee tone. 17cm (6 3/4in) wide.
|十七/十八世紀 銅琮式獅耳爐陽文「大明宣德年製」楷書款See a similar but slightly larger archaistic rectangular bronze censer, 17th century, which was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8 October 2010, lot 2715.精銅煉就，仿良渚文化玉琮形，長方形口，方唇，折沿，短頸，方肩，爐身四角每面鑄起方棱線格，每線格之內又起橫棱一條，每面正中光素，略有穹面，兩側鑄獅首，圈足亦折沿，底部鑄「大明宣德年製」楷書款。可比較一件稍大的十七世紀仿古琮形爐，2010年10月8日售於香港蘇富比，拍品編號2715。