LATE SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD, 5TH CENTURY BC

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A RARE BRONZE WINE VESSEL, HU
LATE SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD, 5TH CENTURY BC
Of compressed spherical shape cast with four bi-roundels in high relief enclosing stylised leaves and scrolling elements terminating with impressed knobs, these super-imposed on the upper half of the wide border on the shoulder filled with four tight horizontal registers of angular dragons, all framed within rope-twist bands, and below a further similar band suspending triangular lappets below the vertical neck, the patina of silvery-grey tone
9 3/4 in. (24.6 cm.) high, stand, Japanese box

Provenance

Acquired in July 1970, and sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 27 October 2003, lot 796

Literature

Ancient Chinese Art in the Idemitsu Collection, Japan, 1986, no. 182

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Lot Essay

Compare with two examples, the first with a lid in the collection of Museum fur Ostasiatische Kunst, Cologne, illustrated by J. So, Ancient Chinese Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, vol. III, fig. 33.1; and the other similar to the present lot, illustrated by J. Alexander Pope et. al., The Freer Chinese Bronzes, vol. I, Washington, 1967, pl. 96.

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