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A SMALL GILT-BRONZE BELL
Lot 121

A SMALL GILT-BRONZE BELL

PROBABLY ASUKA PERIOD (7TH CENTURY)

Closed18 March 2025

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A SMALL GILT-BRONZE BELL
PROBABLY ASUKA PERIOD (7TH CENTURY)
The oval bell finely cast and gilded, the bottom with a rectangular aperture revealing a ball inside
1.¼ in. (3.2 cm.) long

Enmanji temple, Nara Prefecture by repute
Otsuki Bankei (1801-1878)
Previously sold in these rooms, 15 April 2016, lot 7

Specialist note

According to a copy of handwritten note dated 1874, this bell is from Asuka period and a similar bell is known to exist in the collection of Horyuji Temple, Nara. For the similar bells in the collection of Horyuji Temple, see Catalogue of Art Treasures of Ten Great Temples of Nara, volume eleven - The Horyuji Temple Part XI (Tokyo: Otsuka Kogeisha, 1933), pl. 22.