A good Chinese parcel gilt bronze incense burner c.1600

A good Chinese parcel gilt bronze incense burner c.1600, of archaic bronze gui form with a flared foot and loop handles with projecting spurs and animal mask caps, cast with three bands of raised relief decoration with a wide frieze of taotie masks beneath phoenix, the base inscribed Yunjian Hu Wenming zhi (made by Hu Wenming of Yunjian), 16.9cm. Cf. Lin, Chinese Incense Burners, Collection of Steven Hung & Lindy Chern, no.143, p.168 for a similar example.