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PROPERTY FROM THE ALAN AND SIMONE HARTMAN
COLLECTION
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A COPPER-INLAID BRONZE WINE VESSEL, HU Compare the very similar bronze hu inlaid with copper and with a
Late Spring and Autumn/Warring States period pair of taotie masks and ring handles, now in the collection of the
The ovoid body rising from a straight foot, a pair of taotie masks and National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington
rings attached to the shoulder, the neck coming up to a gently flaring D.C., illustrated by Jenny F. So, Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the
mouth, finely inlaid with confronting pairs of phoenix, deer, dragon, Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Vol. III, New York, 1995, pp.256-259,
tiger, stag, all between a band of compressed X-shaped inlays at described as Eastern Zhou: late Spring and Autumn period, late 6th
the mouth and foot ring, the exterior polished smooth to reveal the or early 5th century B.C., where the author also cites another similar
designs, the interior with encrusted malachite and earth, the underside example on p.259, fig.44.1, in the collection of the Royal Ontario
with remains of ceramic casting core. Museum, Toronto.
14 5/8in (37.2cm) high
Compare also the bronze hu with closely related design, unearthed in
$8,000 - 12,000 1982 at Luoyang, Henan province, now in the collection of the Henan
Provincial Museum, illustrated in Compendium of Chinese Bronze,
春秋末 青銅嵌紅銅饕餮活環耳獸紋壺 Vol. 7, Eastern Zhou I, Dongguan, 1998, pp.142-143, nos.137-138,
described as early Warring States period.

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