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Property from an English private
collection
英國私人收藏藏品

251 A plain bronze tripod vase of similar ovoid shape but with
A gold-splashed bronze tripod vessel three handles and cast with Buddhist lions on the side,
Cast Xuande four-character mark, 18th century dated to the Yongzheng or Qianlong periods, is illustrated
The ovoid body mounted on three stoutly curving legs by P.K.Hu., Later Chinese Bronzes: The Saint Louis Art
each cast with a ruyi-head motif, the body flanked by two Museum and Robert E.Kresko Collection, Saint Louis, 2008,
loop handles issuing from the mouth of a stylised horned no.33. Another gilt-splashed vase with a related ovoid
mythical beast, the vessel finely splashed all over the shape and a cast Kangxi mark in the Phoenix Art Museum
exterior with gilt. is illustrated by R.D.Mowry, China’s Renaissance in Bronze:
23.8cm (9 3/8in) high The Robert H.Clague Collection of Later Chinese Bronzes
£10,000 - 15,000 1100-1900, Phoenix, 1993, no.34.
HK$120,000 - 190,000 CNY98,000 - 150,000

十八世紀 銅灑金雙獸耳三足爐 陽文「宣德年製」篆書款
Provenance: a former Governor of Hong Kong in the late
19th century and thence by descent
來源：十九世紀晚期前香港總督藏品，並由家族繼承下去

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