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A bronze baluster two-handled vase
Cast Xuande six-character mark, late Ming/early Qing dynasty
The body decorated with raised bosses and inverted double ruyi-heads,
the neck separated by two horizontal ribs and a frieze of archaistic and
keyfret scrolls between archaistic kui dragon handles at the sides, the
recessed base cast with a six-character apocryphal kaishu mark.
48.1cm high.
HK$150,000 - 250,000
US$19,000 - 32,000
明末清初 銅製如意頭紋螭耳瓶 陽文「大明宣德年製」楷文方印
Provenance 來源：
Sydney L. Moss Ltd., London
Illustrated 出版：
Sydney L. Moss Ltd., The Second Bronze Age: Later Chinese Metalwork,
Hong Kong, 1991, no.64.
According to the authors Paul Moss and Gerard Hawthorn, the current
lot retains the vigorous form with strong early design elements which
dates it to the late Ming dynasty. This includes the raised cast ruyi-heads
on the shoulders recalling cloud-collar designs of the Yuan dynasty and
bold semi-spherical bosses at the foot.

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