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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION
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A BRONZE GARLIC-HEAD BOTTLE, HU
HAN DYNASTY (3RD CENTURY BC - 2ND CENTURY AD)
The bulbous body rises to a tall cylindrical neck below the mouth which is
shaped as a lobed garlic bulb, all supported on a short foot. The centre of the
underside of the base has a loop with a twisted rope design. The bronze has a
dark brownish-green patina with areas of encrustation.
14 in. (35.6 cm.) high
£2,000-4,000 $2,900-5,600
€2,300-4,600

PROVENANCE
With Sogado & Co., Japan, before June 1982.
From an important private European collection.

Compare two bronze hu of similar form, but of slightly larger size, illustrated
by J. So in Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections,
New York and Washington D.C, 1995, pp. 288-89, nos. 52 (38.7 cm. high)
and 52.2 (36.7 cm. high). Another example is in the National Palace Museum
Taiwan, illustrated in Shang and Chou Dynasty Bronze Wine Vessels, Taipei,
1978, pp. 212-213, and p. 267.

漢 青銅蒜頭壺

來源:
於1982年6月前購自日本古董商 Sogado & Co
重要歐洲私人珍藏

(base)

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