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A LARGE GILT-SPLASHED BRONZE
TWO-HANDLED BALUSTER VASE
17TH / 18TH CENTURY
cast in two sections, with the tall trumpet neck
Þ tted into the top of the lobed baluster-form
body, the splayed foot studded with bosses and
a ruyi-head collar cast in high relief around the
shoulder, the base of the neck with two raised
Þ llets below a pair of cloud-form handles set
to either side, a band of low-relief dragons and
leiwen around the mid-section of the neck, the
deep brown patina with irregular gilt splashes,
the base with an apocryphal six-character
Xuande mark
Height 18¼ in., 46.4 cm
$ 8,000-12,000
⋩ᶫġİġ⋩ℓᶾ䲨ġġġ戭㿹慹暚俛⣏䒞
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