Gilded Bronze Incense Burner carved with Flying Dragons
Knife-shaped Coin of the Qi State
Square Bronze mirror having a squatting beast-shaped knob
An Incised Bronze Snuff Bottle |
Ming Dynasty The incense burner is in the shape of a compressed rectangular bowl with an openwork lid and four ruyi legs. The body of the vessel is carved in high relief with a dragon emerging from the frothing waves. The four corners of the lid are carved with ruyi heads. On the lid are two prancing dragons flying among auspicious clouds culminating to form the finial. The piece is cast by using the lost wax method. The dragons and the clouds are partly gilded. The bottom is clearly inscribed in regular script with the gilt-highlighted characters "made during the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty". |
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