Details
A Ming bronze cylindrical pierced hexagonal vase
with dragon handles above Immortals and musicians before archways interspersed with characters above waves and below a band of swastikas -- 7½.in (19.1cm) high, 15th Century, (base missing); a bronze flaring gu-vase decorated with taotie below flanges -- 6.in (15.2cm) high; and a compressed bronze tripod censer with loop handles -- 4½.in (11.5cm) wide.
See Colour Plate 1 for two items. (3)
with dragon handles above Immortals and musicians before archways interspersed with characters above waves and below a band of swastikas -- 7½.in (19.1cm) high, 15th Century, (base missing); a bronze flaring gu-vase decorated with taotie below flanges -- 6.in (15.2cm) high; and a compressed bronze tripod censer with loop handles -- 4½.in (11.5cm) wide.
See Colour Plate 1 for two items. (3)