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GRAND VASE EN BRONZE ET
INCRUSTATIONS D'OR ET D'ARGENT,
FANGHU
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING,
XVIIIEME-XIXEME SIECLE
De forme quadrangulaire balustre, il est à décor
archaïsant rehaussé d'or et d'argent, composé de
masques de taotie, cigales, phénix stylisés sur un
fond de leiwen. Les côtés sont agrémentés d'arêtes
crénelées, l'épaulement rehaussé de deux anses en
forme d'animaux fantastiques.
Hauteur: 58,5 cm. (23 in.)

€8,000-12,000 US$8,900-13,000
£7,000-10,000
Bronze vessels inlaid with silver frst appeared
during the Eastern Zhou dynasty (770-256 BC),
and while the form of the current vessel is based
on that of an archaic bronze hu of the Warring
States period (475-221 BC), the technique of inlay,
the large, decorative handles, and high-relief cast
elements clearly place the vessel at a much later
date. The method of inlay on the current lot,
executed by setting silver into recessed wells
within the raised elements of the design, is also
a later technique, as inlay on archaic bronzes was
typically executed by setting the material directly
into the wall of the vessel.
Compare a smaller (43.5 cm. high) archaistic
bronze hu from the Clague Collection, worked in
damascened overlays of silver and gold and dated
to the late 18th or 19th century, illustrated by R.D.
Mowry, China's Renaissance in Bronze: The Robert
H. Clague Collection of Later Chinese Bronzes 1100-
1900, Phoenix Art Museum, 1993, p. 194, no. 42.
A LARGE GOLD AND SILVER-INLAID
ARCHAISTIC VASE, FANGHU
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
清十八/十九世紀 銅嵌金銀獸面紋仿古大方壺

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