A CHINESE COPPER HAND WARMER AND COVER

A CHINESE COPPER HAND WARMER AND COVER
ZHANG MINGQI MARK, LATE MING DYNASTY

The oval body with an intricate openwork basketweave cover, the base with a four-character mark reading Zhang Mingqi zhi, with a paper label for the Finer Collection, 'HW 44', 683g, 12.5cm. (2)

Cf. Sydney L Moss Ltd, The Second Bronze Age: Later Chinese Metalwork, no.83 for a related example. For a further related Zhang Mingqi example see Sotheby's London, 7th December 1993, lot 76.

明晚期 張鳴岐款鏤空手爐
《張鳴岐製》

From the Finer Collection of later bronzes and hand warmers.