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A rare gold-splashed bronze archaistic wine
vessel, jia
18th century
The deep rounded body supported on three blade-form splayed legs, The underside of the belly cast with an inscription in archaic bronze
rising from a flat base to a flaring rim surmounted by two capped script (as with the preceding lot):
posts, set with a loop handle issuing from a monster mask, the
body cast with a band of two large taotie masks on a leiwen ground 伯申作寶彞
separated by vertical flanges, the neck with five upright cicada ‘Boshen made this treasured wine vessel’
lappets enclosing a trigram, the base incised with a five-character Tsang and Moss illustrate another gold-splashed archaistic bronze
inscription in archaic script, the vessel liberally splashed with gilt. jue with the same inscription in Arts from the Scholar’s Studio, Hong
30.8cm (12in) high Kong, 1986, no.161, pp.184–5
£15,000 - 20,000
HK$190,000 - 250,000 CNY150,000 - 200,000
十八世紀 銅灑金饕餮紋斝
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