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An archaic bronze lobed wine vessel, bianhu
Qin / Western Han dynasty
Rising from a sturdy and recessed splayed trapezoid foot, the
compressed oval body with evenly spaced rectangular cartouches with
overlapping dense archaistic scrolls, the wide waist flanked by a pair of
taotie ring handles, narrowing to a slim neck before ending in a six-lobed
garlic mouth at the rim.
29cm high.
HK$80,000 - 100,000
US$10,000 - 13,000
秦/西漢 螭龍紋雙耳蒜頭扁壺

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