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A RARE IMPERIAL GILT-BRONZE ARCHAISTIC
RITUAL BELL, BIANZHONG
Kangxi cast mark, dated to the 54th year corresponding to 1715
and of the period
Heavily cast in barrel form, surmounted by a robust double-headed
dragon handle, each dragon powerfully modelled with bulging eyes,
flaring nostrils and opened jaws revealing tongue and fangs, the
details of their manes and scales beautifully rendered in realism, the
bulging sides cast with four vertical panels at the cardinal directions,
the front panel enclosing Kangxi wushisi nianzhi seven-character
reign mark between taiji and yin emblems, the reverse with a two-
character inscription nanlü, further flanked on each side panel with
raised archaistic dragons set between ruyi and keyfret motifs, all
perpendicular to five alternating horizontal bands of raised bosses and
pairs of trigrams, all above eight circular disks, box.
31cm (12 1/4in) high (2).

HK$2,200,000 - 2,800,000
US$280,000 - 360,000

清康熙 御製銅鎏金蒲牢鈕八卦紋「南呂」編鐘
陽文「康熙五十四年製」、「南呂」款

Provenance 來源:
Sotheby's New York, 19 March 1997, lot 25
A distinguished Asian private collection, and thence by descent

紐約蘇富比，1997年3月19日，拍品25
顯赫亞洲私人收藏，後由其家族繼承