TWO BRONZE TRIPOD VESSELS

HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220)

Details

TWO BRONZE TRIPOD VESSELS
HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220)
One a cooking vessel raised on three tall legs terminating in hoof feet, the shallow body rising to a rounded, everted rim, with a curved handle terminating in a dragon head; the other a pouring vessel (he), the compressed globular body raised on three bear supports, the bird's head spout with hinged beak, and the hollow handle of tapering rectangular form, the hinged cover cast with a quatrefoil motif surrounding the flat knop
14 and 8½ in. (35.5 and 21.5 cm.) across (2)

Provenance

Tripod vessel: in the Gordon Collection, United States, by 1997.
He: Captain and Mrs. S.N. Ferris Luboshez Collection; Sotheby's, London, 29 March 1977, lot 174.

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Lot Essay

A he very similar to the present vessel is illustrated in Kandai no Bijutsu, Osaka Museum of Art, 1974, p. 25, no. 2-50. Hollow handles of the type seen on this and the present vessel are thought to have had wood inserts for more convenient, and safer, handling.

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