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AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE ARCHAIC BRONZE 東周 春秋 青銅獸面紋龍流盉
RITUAL POURING VESSEL (HE)
EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, SPRING AND 來源：
AUTUMN PERIOD 上拍於倫敦蘇富比1986年12月9日，編號7
倫敦蘇富比1998年11月18日，編號804
finely cast with the body divided into three lobes each
rising from a slender leg and decorated on each side with 出版：
a powerful high-relief taotie mask composed of detached 彭銳查及張立東，《The MacLean Collection: Chinese
elements including phoenix forming the tail and small Ritual Bronzes》，芝加哥，2010年，圖版22
dragons defining the horns, the shoulder encircled with a
narrow border of sinuous scrollwork, repeated around the
neck below the flared rim, the long, gently curved slender
neck terminating in a dragon mask forming the spout
opposite the loop handle issuing from a bovine head
Length 14⅛ in., 35.8 cm
PROVENANCE
Offered at Sotheby’s London, 9th December 1986, lot 7.
Sotheby’s London, 18th November 1998, lot 804.
LITERATURE
Richard A. Pegg and Zhang Lidong, The MacLean Collection:
Chinese Ritual Bronzes, Chicago, 2010, pl. 22.

$ 250,000-350,000

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