A GILT-SPLASHED BRONZE VASE

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A GILT-SPLASHED BRONZE VASE
17TH/18TH CENTURY

The oviform vase with a slightly flaring mouth, splashed overall with gilt and encased in naturalistically rendered ropework, the underside of the concave base also arbitrarily splashed with gilt around the apocryphal Xuande six-character mark cast within a rectangle
6 1/8 in. (15.6 cm.) high

Lot Essay

It is unusual to find a gilt-splashed bronze vessel of this shape and with ropework decoration which recall archaistic bronzes from the Han dynasty, such as the hu excavated at Tang Shan in Hebei, illustrated in Watson, Ancient Chinese Bronzes, 1977, pl. 64b.

(US$6,000-8,000)

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