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A PAir of BronzE PEAr shAPEd VAsEs 56
Yuan/Early Ming Dynasty
Each vessel rising from a splayed foot to a pear-shaped body, with
a waisted neck flanked with archaistic loose ring handles, with an
everted mouthrim, the foot and body with a band of low relief wave
pattern, the neck with a taotie mask.
Each: 35cm (13 3/4in) high (2).

£1,500 - 2,000 HK$18,000 - 24,000
CNY14,000 - 19,000

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A rEtiCulAtEd quAtrE-foil BronzE inCEnsE holdEr
Qing Dynasty
The openwork sides cast with scholars pursuing the ‘Four Arts’ of
chess, music, poetry and painting, the base with a four-character
incised mark 郜國英造.
15.5cm (6 1/8in) high

£1,500 - 1,800 HK$18,000 - 22,000
CNY14,000 - 17,000

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A CirCulAr BronzE mirror
Warring States Period
The mirror back cast with three stylised dragons in mutual pursuit on
a lozenge and diaper ground, the central loop boss surrounded with
channel.
18.8cm (4/8in) diam

£1,000 - 1,500 HK$12,000 - 18,000
CNY9,600 - 14,000

Provenance
Collection of Henri Geene (d.1950), and thence by descent.

For a comparable mirror cast with three lozenge-bodied dragons,
Warring States 3rd century BC, see Ju-hsi Chou, Circles of Reflection:
The Carter Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors, Cleveland Museum of
Art 2000, no. 7, p. 28.

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