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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
2924
A BRONZE ELEPHANT-
HANDLED BOTTLE VASE
YUAN-MING DYNASTY (1279-1644)
The vase is decorated with an archaistic
mask band to just below the rim, flanked
by two elegant elephant handles to the
neck, all above evenly-spaced upright
cicada-form lappets and a raised foliate
collar at the shoulder of the globular body.
The everted foot is decorated with a band
of stylised kui dragons on a leiwen ground.
The bronze is of a rich deep tone.
11 in. (28 cm.) high, inscribed Japanese
wood box
HK$80,000-120,000
US$11,000-15,000
Compare the present vase to one of
similar form with straight flaring neck
and globular body, in the Victoria and
Albert Museum, illustrated in Rose Kerr,
Later Chinese Bronzes, London, 1990,
pp. 44-45, pl. 33. See also two bottle
vases of slightly earlier date from the
Ulrich Hausmann Collection sold at
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 8 October 2014,
lots 3329 and 3343, both with mask
bands around the neck and elephant-
head handles with their trunks slightly
lifted from the vase, possibly inspiring
the décor of the present lot.

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