A gilt splashed bronze 'alms' bowl


18th/19th centuryCast with a compressed globular body with a lipped rim surrounded by a broad shoulder, with gold splashes overall, the concave foot with an inset six-character mark, Da Ming Xuande nian zhi. 7in (18cm) diameter, 41 1/2oz (1179gm)
|十八/十九世紀 銅灑金缽Provenance Mabak Antiques, Philadelphia, 1988A similar gold-splashed censer of alms bowl shape is illustrated in Arts from the Scholar's Studio, Oriental Ceramic Society, Hong Kong, 1986, cat. no. 229. For a second example, see a comparable lot sold in Christie's. Hong Kong, 30 November 2011， lot 3182.