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Subject:Re: Asian bronze censer
Posted By: Bill H Sat, Jul 01, 2017
The mark appears to read down as 渡雲斉, though the last character is tentative. I found such a mark in the description for another form of bronze censer, said to be Japanese-made, which item a Taiwan website was auctioning online. The mark was not visible in any of the photos available in the listing. Link is pasted below.
Perhaps one or more our Japanese contributors can make sense of the mark. I'm fairly certain of the first two characters, which have a literal meaning of "ferry across the clouds". The last character can be a surname with several transliterations in Japanese.
https://tw.bid.yahoo.com/item/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E9%8A%85%E8%8A%B1%E5%99%A8%E3%80%80%E9%A6%99%E7%88%90%E3%80%80%E6%B8%A1%E9%9B%B2%E6%96%89%E4%BD%9C%E3%80%80%E6%B3%A2%E5%8D%83%E9%B3%A5%E8%B1%A1%E5%B5%8C%E8%88%9F%E5%BD%A2%E8%8A%B1%E5%85%A5%E3%80%80%E4%B8%AD-100119771978
Good luck,
Bill H.
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