A parcel-gilt bronze ‘butterflies and flowers’ incense-tool vase by Hu Wenming, Ming dynasty, 17th century | 明十七世紀 局部鎏金銅「蝶戀花」小瓶 《胡文明製》款
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A parcel-gilt bronze ‘butterflies and flowers’ incense-tool vase by Hu Wenming
Ming dynasty, 17th century
明十七世紀 局部鎏金銅「蝶戀花」小瓶
《胡文明製》款
of cylindrical form with a waisted neck and base, supported on a flat circular foot, cast and chased around the main body with a design of two butterflies and flowering roses depicted above small leaf clusters, all set against a punched design of stylised floral diaper-ground and set between two raised bands, the neck with a band of stylised floral scroll set on a ring-punched ground, the outer mouthrim and the outer footrim both engraved with a continuous band of leiwen, the details on the relief, bands, lip and footrim all richly gilt, the inlaid copper foot engraved in zhuanshu with a four-character mark Hu Wenming zhi (‘Made by Hu Wenming’)
10.5 cm
252 g
Sydney L. Moss Ltd., London, May 1983.
The Water, Pine And Stone Retreat Collection.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8th April 2014, lot 202.
Sydney L. Moss Ltd.，倫敦 ，1983年5月
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香港蘇富比2014年4月8日，編號202
Gerard Tsang and Hugh Moss, 'Chinese Metalwork of the Hu Wenming Group', Handbook, International Asian Antiques Fair, Hong Kong, 1984, p. 52, fig. 23.
展覽：
Gerard Tsang 及 Hugh Moss，《Handbook, International Asian Antiques Fair》，香港，1984年，頁52，圖23
Sydney L. Moss Ltd., Documentary Chinese Works of Art in Scholars’ Taste, London, 1983, p. 255, cat. no. 155.
出版：
Sydney L. Moss Ltd.，《Documentary Chinese Works of Art in Scholars’ Taste》 ，倫敦，1983年，頁255，編號155
Hu Wenming from Songjiang, Jiangsu province, was one of the most accomplished master metalworkers of the late Ming period, who specialised in the production of gilt metal vessels for the scholar's desk.