A RARE BRONZE WATER VESSEL, PAN

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A RARE BRONZE WATER VESSEL, PAN
SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD (770-256 BC)

The sides flaring widely from the flat base, the angular shoulder cast with a border of confronted dragons and phoenixes with a pair of rope-twist handles to the sides, all below an everted rim, cast to the interior with a twelve-character pictograph, the patina silver-grey 11 7/8 in. (30 cm.) diam., stand, box

Sale room notice

Please note that contrary to the catalogue entry, this lot does not have a stand.

Lot Essay

Acquired by the present owner in September 1968.

This vessel is a later form of the pan, and appears to be relatively rare. A comparable example is published in the Yenching Journal of Chinese Studies, The Bronzes of Shang and Chou, Monograph Series no. 17, vol. II, Jung Keng, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Yenching Univesity, Beijing, China, 1941, p. 464, pl. 882. A related example sold in our New York Room, 21 March 2002, lot 59.

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