A CHINESE GILT-BRONZE HAND WARMER AND COVER

A CHINESE GILT-BRONZE HAND WARMER AND COVER
WANG XU MARK, 17TH CENTURY

The bulbous body set with a swing handle, the cover cast, pierced and chased with a design of Magu and an attendant below a pine tree, the base incised a signature for Wang Xu and a poem, with a paper label for the Finer Collection 'HW 22', 749g, 14cm. (2)

Cf. Gerard Hawthorn Ltd, Oriental Works of Art, June 1998, no. 35 & no. 36 for related examples bearing the same mark and with inscriptions to the bases. See also Bonham's London, 10th November 2016, lot 90 for another related hand warmer.

十七世紀 銅鎏金麻姑題詩手爐
銘文：採芝空有曲，種樹豈無詩，王旭。

From the Finer Collection of later bronzes and hand warmers.