A Chinese parcel-gilt and silver inlaid bronze tripod censer, Yunjian Hu Wenming mark, 16th/17th century,the cylindrical body cast and chased in relief with lotus, peonies, chrysanthemums, narcissus and lingzhi fungus highlighted in gilt, on a diaper ground, between a pair of silver inlaid keywork bands, on three cast and shaped feet, with fold over rim, incised six character mark ‘Yunjian Hu Wenming zhi' to the base, 10.7cm wide, 8.9cm high,cf. two parcel-gilt tripod censers similarly decorated with flower sprays reserved on a diaper ground: one of similar size with the same maker's mark, but in raised rather than engraved characters, illustrated in Documentary Chinese Works of Art: In Scholars' Taste, Sydney L. Moss Ltd., London, 1983, pp. 224-5, no. 157; and the second of broader diameter (4 5/8 in.), with the same engraved maker's mark illustrated in The Literati Mode, Sydney L. Moss Ltd., London, 1986, p. 290, no. 144, where the censer is dated Wanli period, circa 1600. Another example also in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Accession Number: 2006.310.Dimensions: small dents and three rim splits