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PROPERTY FROM THE GANNON FAMILY COLLECTION
820
AN IMPERIAL GILT-BRONZE RITUAL BELL, BIANZHONG
KANGXI CAST MARK CORRESPONDING TO 1713 AND OF THE PERIOD
Heavily cast in barrel form, the bell is decorated in high relief with horizontal
bands of bosses alternating with the Daoist Trigrams flanking four vertical
panels, one enclosing the reign date Kangxi wushier nian zhi, 'made in the fifty-
second year of Kangxi', one bearing the characters, nanlu, denoting its tone,
and two enclosing an archaistic dragon beneath a ruyi head, all above a band of
large flat discs. The flat top is surmounted by a suspension handle formed by
two addorsed dragons.
12 in. (30.5 cm.) high
$150,000-300,000
PROVENANCE:
Acquired in Georgia or Louisiana by 1967, and thence by descent within the
family.
GANNON 家族珍藏
清康熙五十二年(1713) 鎏金銅蒲牢鈕八卦紋「南呂」編鐘
來源:
1967年購藏於喬治亞或路易斯安那州, 後家族傳承
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