A CHINESE OVAL COPPER ALLOY HAND WARMER AND COVER

A CHINESE OVAL COPPER ALLOY HAND WARMER AND COVER
ZHANG MINGQI MARK, EARLY-MID 17TH CENTURY

The oval body with an intricately pierced cover with an openwork floral and geometric design, set with a swing handle, with a four-character mark reading Zhang Mingqi zhi, 543g, 11.4 cm. (2)

Provenance: purchased from Sotheby's London, 7th December 1993, lot 74.

Published and exhibited by Sydney L Moss, The Second Bronze Age: Later Chinese Metalwork, 1991, no.82.

十七世紀中期 張鳴崎款銅鏤空帶環手爐
《張鳴崎製》

From the Finer Collection of later bronzes and hand warmers.