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A PAIR OF GILT-SPLASHED ARCHAISTIC WINE A gold-splashed archaistic bronze jue with the same identical
inscription is known and is illustrated in Arts from the Scholar’s Studio,
VESSELS, JIA 1986, p. 184-185, no. 161.
QING DYNASTY, 17TH-18TH CENTURY 清十七/十八世紀 銅灑金仿古斝一對
「伯申作寶彜」鑄款
Each vessel is raised on three blade supports and the body crisply
cast with two taotie masks on a leiwen ground divided by flanges set 展覽
directly below each of the capped posts rising from the rim. The Spink & Son Ltd.，《The Minor Arts of China III》，
neck is further embellished with detached, ascending blades each 倫敦，1987，圖77號
enclosing a trigram, and attached with a curved handle emerging
from the mouth of a monster mask to one side. The underside
is inscribed with a five-character inscription, reading Boshen zuo
baoyi, ‘This precious vessel made by Boshen’.
11 æ in. (29.8 cm.) high
HK$400,000-600,000 US$52,000-78,000
EXHIBITED
Spink & Son Ltd., The Minor Arts of China III, London, 1987,
no. 77
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