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The sides cast with various auspicious emblems, flowers and fruit sprigs and a butterfly, the base with Hu Wenming mark, wear to gilding
Jar
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Randy Batista

Jar

Artist Hu Wenming (Chinese, active late 16th - early 17th century)
Date17th century
Place of originChina, Asia
MediumBronze
Dimensions2 5/16 x 3 1/16 x 2 1/16 in. (5.9 x 7.8 x 5.2 cm)
ClassificationsFurnishings and Equipment
Credit LineBequest of Dr. David A. Cofrin
Object number2009.48.53
Collections
Visual DescriptionThe sides cast with various auspicious emblems, flowers and fruit sprigs and a butterfly, the base with Hu Wenming mark, wear to gilding

Gerard Hawthorne description:
A fine and rare cast and chased parcel-gilt bronze miniature incense burner of baluster form set with two separately cast flame-form handles, the body decorated with the Eight Buddhist Emblems amid fruit and flowers raised on a floral diaper ground, the neck inlaid in silver with a continuous leiwen design. The base with an incised four-character inscription in rounded seal-script in a square gilt reserve hu wen ming zhi (made by Hu Wenming)
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Hu Wenming
17th century
A fine cloisonné enamel vase of globular bottle form with a cylindrical neck and low gilt foot rim, decorated with ruyi-head lappets at the foot and around the shoulder; the body decorated with formalized lotus flowers, leaves and stems; the neck decorated with flowers above tall leaf-form lappets; all enameled in red, yellow, white, lapis blue, light and dark green, and aubergine on a turquoise ground.
Miniature Bottle Vase
Chinese Artist
18th Century
A fine miniature cloisonné enamel vase of baluster form, the rounded body set with two high relief gilt-bronze mask handles and decorated with lotus flowers and leaves, the tall flared foot decorated with flower heads and leaf lappets, the tall flared neck similarly decorated. All enameled in red, yellow, white, light and dark green, pink, and lapis blue on a turquoise blue ground.
Miniature Baluster Vase
Chinese Artist
18th Century
bombe-form censer with central band of waves and mythical sea creatures
Censer with Mythical Creatures
Hu Wenming
Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), 16th-17th century
A side-stitched book cover featuring a dense, repeating red pattern of overlapping arches, flying birds, small buildings, and circular emblems. Three black Japanese characters are stacked vertically on the left, each enclosed within a red ring.
Japanese Hand-Made Paper, Volume I, Northeastern Japan
Seikichiro Goto
1958
A right-bound cover stitched with red thread, featuring a dense blue pattern of overlapping stylized mountains, huts, cranes, and circular emblems. Four large red Japanese characters, each enclosed in a blue circle, descend vertically on the left side. The four red characters read top to bottom are 日本の紙 (Nihon no kami), which translates to "Japanese paper."
Japanese Hand-Made Paper, Volume II, Western Japan
Seikichiro Goto
1960
A high-shouldered vase with ring handles decorated with design of magnolia and peony blossoms.
Incense Tool Vase
Hu Wenming
Ming dynasty (1368-1644)
A fine miniature bronze hu of rounded pear shape with flared mouth rim, supported on a low foot set at the neck with two solid tubular handles, decorated with two stylized phoenix inlaid in scrolling silver wire and silver sheet, partially covered by areas of heavily applied archaistic style encrustation.
Hu
Chinese Artist
17th century or later
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Tsuda Shinobu
1929
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To Your Health, Lucas Cranach!
Eva Hašková
1983
Of baluster form and decorated in polychrome enamels, gilt over a clear crackled glaze with a continuous frieze of a landscape with a lakeside and cherry trees in blossom, the neck painted with a foliate scroll and foot with a band of key frets
Earthenware Vase
Japanese Artist
early 20th century
Large cast aluminum spiral on concrete base.
Buddha's Ladder
Paul Fullerton
1990

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