A GILT-SPLASHED BRONZE HEXAGONAL-LOBED VASE

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A GILT-SPLASHED BRONZE HEXAGONAL-LOBED VASE
17TH CENTURY

Of gu shape, with fluted sides rising to a trumpet neck, cast with a six-character Xuande mark within a rectangle to the base, the metal of a honey-brown colour with irregular splashes of gold
8 1/8 in. (20.7 cm.) high

Lot Essay

For a comparable version in porcelain imitating bronze with a Qianlong mark from the Baur Collection, cf. Sekai Toji Zenshu, Shogakukan Series, vol. 15, pl. 124.

(US$12,000-16,000)

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