A RARE DATED PARCEL-GILT BRONZE TEMPLE BELL AND A STAND
A RARE DATED PARCEL-GILT BRONZE TEMPLE BELL AND A STAND
A RARE DATED PARCEL-GILT BRONZE TEMPLE BELL AND A STAND
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A RARE DATED PARCEL-GILT BRONZE TEMPLE BELL AND A STAND
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PROPERTY FROM THE ANITA BALDWIN COLLECTION
銅雙龍鈕鐘及鐘座 鐘:明弘治 「大明弘治己未年孟春吉日製」鑄款 座:明嘉靖 六字楷書款

BELL, HONGZHI PERIOD, WITH CYCLICAL DATE CORRESPONDING TO 1499 AND OF THE PERIOD; STAND, JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-1566)

細節
銅雙龍鈕鐘及鐘座 
鐘:明弘治 「大明弘治己未年孟春吉日製」鑄款 
座:明嘉靖 六字楷書款
Bell 12 in. (30.5 cm.) high; stand 30 3/8 in. (77 cm.)
來源
Anita Baldwin (1876-1939) Collection, Los Angeles, California, and thence by descent within the family.

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Olivia Hamilton
Olivia Hamilton

拍品專文


The use of bells has a long history in China, beginning with the sets of musical bells developed in mid-2nd century BCE. Bronze temple bells would have formed an important part of the rituals in a Buddhist temple, they would have provided a platform for dedications; been rung on significant days; to announce events; and the melodious sound produced by the bell was considered a form of communication to the spirit world.

Ming-dynasty bronze bells of this shape can be found with a variety decorative registers and cylclical dates. A bronze bell of similar shape, decorated with inscriptions and trigrams and presented to a Daoist temple in 1431 by Zheng He, is illustrated in Ming, 50 Years That Changed China, London, 2014, pp. 272-273. Another example of this type, a bronze bell dated to the sixth year of Zhengde (1512), with registers of panels enclosing names and a double-dragon form handle, was sold at Christie's London, 7 November 2017, lot 192.

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