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A BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, HE
MIDDLE SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD, EARLY 6TH CENTURY BC PROVENANCE
The vessel of elliptical form is fnely cast with a band of small dragon pattern Frank Caro, New York, 1965.
interrupted by a pair of loop handles on the sides. The bronze has a silvery-grey Arthur M. Sackler Collections.
patina with light malachite and azurite encrustation. Else Sackler.
Elizabeth A. Sackler.
6º in. (16 cm.) wide
EXHIBITED
$7,000-9,000 On loan: New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1966.
春秋中期 青銅蟠虺紋金和 LITERATURE
J. So, Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections,
New York, 1995, pp. 300-01, no. 57.

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