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PROPERTY FROM THE JEFFREY M. KAPLAN COLLECTION The shape and inlaid decoration of this vessel are based on
ancient prototypes from the Warring States period, 5th-3rd
A GOLD AND SILVER-INLAID BRONZE TAPIR- century B.C., such as one example in the National Palace
FORM VESSEL (ZUN) Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Special Exhibition of Shang and
MING DYNASTY, 16TH / 17TH CENTURY Chou Dynasty Bronze Wine vessels, National Palace Museum,
Taipei, 1989, cat. no. 66.
nely cast after the archaic bronze wine vessel, the beast
standing four square with head raised and ears pricked, the Later archaistic vessels of this form have historically been
mouth slightly open and pierced below a curled snout, bearing dated broadly to the Song to Ming dynasties, with a number
a collar encircling the neck, the sides and haunches cast with attributed to the Yuan dynasty, such as one included in the
scrolls and swirling patterns in low relief, with the long tapered exhibition Through the Prism of the Past. Antiquarian Trends
tail swept to the side below a hinged circular cover, profusely in Chinese Art of the 16th to 18th Century, National Palace
decorated all over with archaistic motifs in silver inlay and Museum, Taipei, 2008, cat. no. III-55. A slightly smaller
gilt, the bronze with an enhanced greenish-brown patina with vessel, similarly cast and inlaid is illustrated in Philip K. Hu,
patches of malachite-green encrustation Later Chinese Bronzes. The Saint Louis Museum and Robert
Length 11½ in., 29.2 cm E. Kresko Collections, Saint Louis, 2008, pl. 6, where the
author notes that the addition of low and medium cast relief
PROVENANCE patterns suggests a Ming dynasty manufacture. See also
another similar example, acquired by Henri Cernuschi in 1896,
Sydney L. Moss, London, 2000. attributed to the 16th to early 17th century, in the exhibition
Bronzes de la Chine impériale des Song aux Qing, Musée
EXHIBITED Cernuschi, Paris, 2013, cat. no. 42.

Escape from the Dusty World, Sydney L. Moss, London, 1999,
cat. no. 113.

$ 20,000-30,000

Sydney L Moss 2000

Escape from the Dusty World Sydney L Moss

1999 113

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