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PROPERTY FROM THE ALAN AND SIMONE HARTMAN
COLLECTION
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TWO ARCHAIC CAST BRONZE COVERED VESSELS, HU The taller vase may originally have been furnished with a chained
Warring States/Han Dynasty arched handle, like the shorter vase in the present lot. Compare the
Each raised on a splayed foot supporting a low-set body tapering elongated bronze vase of similar height and closely related design,
inward to a long neck and domed cover, the taller vessel cast with five unearthed in 1957 from Changsha, Hunan province, illustrated in
rows of disintegrated zoomorphic bands under a narrow twisted rope Compendium of Chinese Bronze, Vol. 10, Eastern Zhou IV, Dongguan,
pattern and stiff leaves, set off by paired mask handles; the shorter 1998, p. 41, no. 41, described as mid-Warring States. Compare also
vessel with four broader bands of interlocking rams-headed beasts the chain-handled bronze hu with additional taotie masks and handles
under a row of tall lappets set off small dragon head masks supporting at the lower body, unearthed from Yutaishan M480 in Jiangling, Hubei
an elaborate chain handle attached to the domed over, with three province, illustrated by Jenny F. So, Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from
further dragon masks suspending single rings near the base, the cover the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Volume III, New York, 1995, p. 287,
bearing an incised inscription. (2) Fig. 51.3, described as late 4th-early 3rd century B.C.
13 3/4in (35cm) and 11 1/4in (28.6cm) high
Compare the closely related bronze vase with chain and handle,
$4,000 - 6,000 unearthed in 1968 from the tomb of King of Zhongshan and his wife
Dou Guan at Mancheng, Hebei province, now in the collection of
戰國/漢 青銅螭龍紋提梁蓋壺兩件 the Hebei Provincial Museum, illustrated in Compendium of Chinese
Bronze, Vol. 12, Qin and Han, Dongguan, 1998, p. 61, no. 59,
described as mid-Western Han.
X-radiography of the smaller bronze hu is available upon request.

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