A rare gilt-bronze 'mythical beast' incense burner, signed Zhu Zhenming, Ming dynasty, 17th century | 明十七世紀 鎏金銅鏨瑞獸紋簋式爐 《雲間朱震明製》款

Formerly in a French private collection.

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Zhu Zhenming of Yunjian is thought to be a close contemporary or associate working in the studio of Hu Wenming, the well identified bronze Master of the late Ming dynasty. A related incense burner by Hu Wenming of Yunjian is in the Robert H. Clague collection, illustrated in Robert D. Mowry, China's Renaissance in Bronze: The Robert H. Clague Collection of Later Chinese Bronzes 1100-1900, Phoenix, 1993, cat. no. 12.

A Ming dynasty parcel-gilt bronze circular seal paste box and cover signed Zhu Zhenming is in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated in Rose Kerr, Later Chinese Bronzes, London, 1990, pl. 42. Compare also a Zhu Zhenming incense burner offered in our Hong Kong rooms, 22nd April 2021, from the collection of Sydney L. Moss.