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A fine large bronze baluster vase                                           Gerard Hawthorn

17th/18th century                                                           Compare also a similarly lobed bronze vase with flaring neck but with
The lobed body relief cast with a series of ruyi-heads and finely incised   different archaistic mythical beast handles, illustrated by Sydney L. Moss
                                                                            Ltd., The Second Bronze Age. Later Chinese Metalwork, London, 1991,
with a continuous leafy vine ground dividing evenly spaced auspicious       no.66.

eight Buddhist symbols between upward and downward barbed design,

the flaring trumpet neck divided by two pairs of horizontal ribs, and cast

with a continuous scene of deers and cranes amidst pine and bamboo

groves, flanked by a pair of mythical beast handles.
58cm high. (2).
HK$180,000 - 280,000
US$23,000 - 36,000

清十七/十八世紀 銅陰刻八吉祥紋梭式龍耳瓶

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