Page 22 - China's Renaissance in Bronze, The Robert H.CIague Collection of Later Chinese Bronzes 1100-1900

1 Square Hu Vessel

with two loop handles and with taot/e and interlaced dragon decor

Song dynasty, twelfth - thirteenth century
Cast bronze with cast decoration and a cast intaglio inscription in
bronze-script characters (jinwen) on the interior of the neck
47.6 centimeter height
Provenance: R.Strehlneck, London and Beijing; Gerald Krech, London
and New York
Clague Collection Number 235