A CHINESE COPPER ALLOY HAND WARMER AND COVER

A CHINESE COPPER ALLOY HAND WARMER AND COVER
CHEN RULIN MARK, QING DYNASTY

Of circular form, the body decorated with two scaly dragons chasing flaming pearls above waves, the body set with a swing handle fixed with cicada-shaped terminals, the pierced cover with two dragons around a central shou character, incised with a four-character mark reading Chen Rulin zhi, with a paper label for the Finer Collection 'HW 35', 2.2kg, 22.5cm. (2)

Cf. Jin Yingyuan & Zhang Zhengwang, Zhongguo minjian shoulu jianshang, p.135 for another hand warmer with a four-character Chen Rulin mark. See also Lin, Pe-yu, Censers, Incense Burners and Hand Warmers Wellington Wang Collection, no. 12 for a similar but unmarked hand warmer.

清 銅趕珠龍紋手爐

《陳如霖製》

From the Finer Collection of later bronzes and hand warmers.