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PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 紳士藏品
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A MASSIVE ARCHAIC BRONZE VESSEL AND COVER, HU
Spring and Autumn Period
The compressed pear-shaped body supported on a tall spreading
foot, crisply cast on a leiwen ground with two undulating wave bands
enclosing detached C-scrolls and O-shapes around the lower bulging
body, below a smaller register of stylized dragons and another wave
band at the neck, interrupted by a pair of handles issuing from
reticulated dragon heads, all above three rows of overlapping pendent
lappets around the pierced foot, the cover cast with a zoomorphic
band around the rim, surmounted by six everted reticulated lappets
encircling a large central medallion of entwining serpents enclosed by
a sawtooth border, the surface with light malachite encrustation.
72cm (28 3/8in) high. (2).
HKD3,000,000 - 4,000,000
US$380,000 - 510,000

春秋 青銅龍紋鋪首波曲紋壺
Provenance:
Acquired in Taiwan, 1990s (by repute)
Formerly in the collection of a late member of the Ching Wan Society,
Taipei (by repute)
An Asian private collection
來源:
1990年代購於台灣（據傳）
台灣清翫雅集成員舊藏（據傳）
亞洲私人收藏

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