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241 AN IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE INLAID IRON FLASK
WARRING STATES PERIOD - HAN DYNASTY
戰國至漢 鐵錯銀嵌綠松石及銀鎏金瑞獸紋牌舖首耳活環扁壺

the flattened oval body sumptuously inset on each side with five registers of gilt-silver and turquoise plaques enclosing
various mythical creatures and animals, each plaque surrounded by four detached scrolls inlaid in fine silver wires, separated
by raised gilt-silver bosses each encircled by quatrefoil bone inlay, all within gilt-silver-bound edges, the shoulders set with a
pair of gilt-bronze mythical beast masks suspending loose rings and similarly decorated with vertically arranged turquoise
animal plaques, between raised bosses surrounded by bone inlay and triangular turquoise inlay carved with small raised
circles, all bordered with detached silver scrolls, the cylindrical neck encircled by a row of raised gilt-bronze florets, between
a band of further raised bosses and bone inlay and triangular turquoise inlay with raised circles, the rectangular foot and
circular mouth secured by a broad gilt-bronze band

Height 12⅝ in., 32. cm
$ 150,000-250,000

PROVENANCE 來源
Collection Georges Bataille (1897-1962), until 4th Georges Bataille (1897-1962) 收藏，至1934年12月4日
December 1934. 貝阿格女伯爵 Martine Marie Pol (1870-1939) 收藏
Collection of Martine Marie Pol, Comtesse de Béhague 加奈侯爵 Hubert Octave (1888-1974) 收藏
(1870 - 1939). Hôtel Drouot，巴黎，1952年5月7日，編號56
Collection of Hubert Octave, Marquis de Ganay (1888- 史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏
1974).
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 7th May 1952, lot 56. 展覽
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978). 《Bronzes Chinois des Dynasties Tcheou, Ts’in & Han.
Préface et historique》，橘園美術館，巴黎，1934年，圖版17
EXHIBITED
Bronzes Chinois des Dynasties Tcheou, Ts’in & Han.
Préface et historique, Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, 1934,
cat. no. 17.

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