A PARCEL-GILT COPPER ALLOY 'EIGHT BUDDHIST EMBLEMS' INCENSE BURNER BY HU WENMING, MING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY | 明十七世紀 胡文明製局部鎏金銅八吉祥簋式香爐 《雲間胡文明製》款

Hu Wenming from Songjiang, Jiangsu province, was one of the most accomplished master metalworkers of the late Ming period, who specialised in the production of gilt metal vessels for the scholar's desk. For another bronze incense burner of gui form by Hu Wenming, engraved with similar seal mark on the base, see the example from the Water, Pine and Stone Retreat collection, sold in these rooms, 8th April 2014, lot 240