拍品 52
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A BRONZE TRIPOD KETTLE AND COVER, HE
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A BRONZE TRIPOD KETTLE AND COVER, HE

HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220)

细节
A BRONZE TRIPOD KETTLE AND COVER, HE
Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 220)
The vessel with a compressed spherical body, the spout in the form of an animal head with hinged cover and scaled neck, set with a rectangular handle cast with an animal mask on top, raised on three legs shaped as crouching bears, the hinged cover cast in low relief with scrollwork around the central small dragon loop, the smooth surfacer with an even pale green patina and malachite encrustation
5½ in. (14 cm.)
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拍品专文

Acquired in July 1993.
Compare a similar example illustrated by Karlgren, "Some Bronzes in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities", BMFEA, no. 21, pl. 42.3; and
another from the Mr. and Mrs. Frederick M. Mayer collection, in
Arts of the Han Dynasty, Chinese Art Society of America, New York, 1961, pl. 41.

The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. C101x76 is consistent with the dating of this lot.