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A PAIR OF GILT-BRONZE QUATREFOIL FITTINGS
Han Dynasty
Each of quatrelobe form, centred with a large domed knob,
the reverse with long shaft and aperture, on plastic mounts.
Each 6.7cm (2 3/4in) wide. (4).
£800 - 1,200
CNY7,200 - 11,000

Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve.
本拍品不設底價

漢 花形車飾一對
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A RARE SMALL GILT-BRONZE VASE, HU
Ming Dynasty or earlier
Heavily cast, of elegant pear-shaped form supported
on a gently spreading foot, the smooth body divided by
five horizontal concentric raised ribs, the shoulders set
with a pair of taotie-mask handles, with some malachite
encrustation.
11cm (4 3/8in) high. 34

£2,000 - 3,000
CNY18,000 - 27,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve.
本拍品不設底價

漢 銅鎏金凸弦紋獸耳小壺

Provenance: Christie’s South Kensington, 10 September
2014, lot 646

來源：佳士得南肯辛頓，2014年9月10日，拍品編號646

See a related gilt-bronze container, Western Han dynasty,
illustrated and discussed by Wang Tao, Chinese Bronzes
from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 2009, p.116,
no.51. Compare also with a related gilt-bronze vessel and
cover, Western Han dynasty, which was sold at Bonhams
London, 8 November 2018, lot 4.
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A RARE SMALL GILT-BRONZE ‘MYTHICAL BEAST’
SEAL
6th century
The square seal surmounted by a finely-modelled
recumbent mythical beast with a short-snouted head raised
upwards, defined by a long beard and long eyebrows, the
face incised with four seal-script characters ‘Li Jiang si yin,
‘the private seal of Li Jiang’, box. 2cm (3/4in) high. (2).
£1,000 - 1,500
CNY9,000 - 14,000 35

Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve.
本拍品不設底價

六世紀 銅鎏金神獸鈕印

See a very similar gilt-bronze mythical beast seal, probably
6th century, illustrated by H.Moss and G.Tsang, Arts (seal face)
from the Scholar’s Studio, Hong Kong, 1986, p.152,
no.125, where it is noted that it ‘is remarkably close to a
monumental stone animal at the mausoleum of Emperor
Wu of the Chen dynasty (r.560-567).

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