SONG DYNASTY

Details

A rare gold and silver-inlaid small bronze bucket
Song Dynasty
The steep slightly tapering sides rising from a flat base, inlaid in gold and silver with a pattern of archaic scrolls and blades between four alternate raised and incised double line horizontal borders, applied to the rim with cicada-mask loop handles fitted with a swing handle, fine turquoise green encrustation
3 cm. high.

Provenance

Formerly on loan to the Victoria & Albert Museum

Literature

Soame Jenyns & William Watson, Chinese Art, The Minor Arts, 1963, vol. 2, p. 106, no 43

Exhibited

Bluett, London 1984
Walter Sedgwick Collection
P.D. Krolik Esq.

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Lot Essay

This vessel is the result of the tremendous interest in bronzes during the Northern Song Period, brought about by a renewed interest in confucianism and anything associated with the rituals of the Bronze Age

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