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PROPERTY OF A WEST COAST COLLECTOR
A LARGE GILT-SPLASHED BRONZE VASE
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
the baluster-form body with an angular shoulder rising to
a trumpet mouth, the waisted neck set to each side with a
scrolling ruyi-form handle, all raised on a splayed foot, the rich
bronze surface artfully ecked with irregular gold splashes, the
inset base with a recessed rectangular cartouche enclosing an
apocryphal Xuande seal mark
Height 13 in., 33 cm
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s London, 14th November 2000, lot 27.
$ 25,000-35,000
2000 11 14 27
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