46×40×56 cm (18 1/8×15 3/4×22 in)

Although portable braziers are quite commonly found, the fixed, open brazier dated earlier than late Ming is rare. This example, of hexagonal form, is inset with six brass bosses that served to separate the hot-coal basin (now missing) from the wooden frame. The outer edge of the top is of gently cushion-molded shape with a narrow molding, now almost completely worn away, on the top. Each face of the brazier has a fretwork design of oval- section, linked squares with rounded corners. The linked-square pattern with square corners is illustrated in the section of “pen-shaft [straight-line] type” balustrade designs in Chi Ch'eng's seventeenth-century garden landscape manual Yüan Yeh (Ji Cheng 1988, pp. 86-89, fig. IV.79). According to Chi Ch'eng, this form is the earliest of the linked-square styles.
——Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, Nicholas Grindley, and Anita Christy, Chinese Funiture: One Hundred and Three Examples from the Mimi and Raymond Hung Collection

Price estimate:
HKD: 600,000 - 900,000
USD: 77,100 - 115,600

Auction Result:
HKD: 3,000,000