Lot 906
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A RARE SMALL BRONZE VESSEL AND COVER
A RARE SMALL BRONZE VESSEL AND COVER
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A RARE SMALL BRONZE VESSEL AND COVER

EARLY SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD, 7TH CENTURY BC

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A RARE SMALL BRONZE VESSEL AND COVER
EARLY SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD, 7TH CENTURY BC
The vessel is of oblong section and pouch-like form, and is intricately cast on the sides with three registers of interlaced dragons with snake-like heads, the flat cover similarly decorated. The bronze has a silver-grey patina with small areas of malachite encrustation.
2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm.) high, ebony stand
Provenance
Lai Loy, Hong Kong, 1980s.
Literature
J. Rawson and E. Bunker, Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1990, pp. 128-29, no. 36.
Exhibited
Hong Kong, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes, 12 October - 2 December 1990.

Lot Essay

A small covered vessel of similar form, but decorated with a large intertwined dragon motif, from a tomb of the State of Guo in modern day Sanmenxia city, Henan province, is illustrated in Shangcunling guoguo mudi, Beijing, 1959, pl. XXXIII:2. See, also, a similar small covered vessel sold at Christie's New York, 15 September 2011, lot 1111; and another sold at Christie's New York, 24 March 2011, lot 1249.

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