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Details
- Place where the work was made
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China
- Period
- Wanli 1573 - 1619 → Ming dynasty 1368 - 1644 → China
- Date
- 1573-1619
- Media category
- Metalwork
- Materials used
- copper with applied cast bronze handles and parcel gilt band around rim
- Dimensions
- 7.5 x 11.7 cm
- Signature & date
Signed base [six-character artist seal: made by Hu Wenming of Yunjian - Songjiang, Jiangsu (Yunjian Hu Wenming zhi)] Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1997
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 368.1997
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Hu Wenming
Works in the collection
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About
The Ming esteem for early bronzes led to the production of contemporary copies for use on household altars as well as for secular use. Hu catered to this market, specialising in wares for the Chinese scholar, specifically those for the incense cult. His family studio was active in the late Ming in the key cultural area known as Jiangnan to the southwest of Shanghai in Jiangsu province, a famous centre for metalcraft. Wares such as this censer represent the fascinating co-operation between the elite scholars, who evolved a distinctive aesthetic, and the artist craftspeople they commissioned to articulate this aesthetic. Out of his co-operation came some outstanding works of art, particularly in metalwork, much of which, like this censer, was archaistic in flavour.
‘The Asian Collections: Art Gallery of New South Wales’. pg.77
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Places
Where the work was made
China
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Glorious, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 May 2017–06 Jan 2019
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Jackie Menzies (Editor), The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Bronzes and Jades', Sydney, 2003, 77 (colour illus.).
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Arts from the Scholar's Studio, Hong Kong, 1986, no.73.
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