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A GILT AND INCISED COPPER
LONG-NECKED EWER AND COVER
LATE MING-EARLY QING DYNASTY,
17TH CENTURY
The ewer has a tall, slender neck and is decorated
on each side with a shaped panel enclosing an
appliqué scene, one of a scholar seated in a boat
under a prunus tree, the other of two birds perched
in a pine tree, all surrounded by incised foral
scrolls, and fanked by the arched strap handle
terminating in an upturned ruyi head and the
curved spout incised at the bottom with a monster
mask. The cover is surmounted by a seated lion.
11 in. (28 cm.) high, Japanese wood box
$10,000-15,000
Two gilt-copper, long-necked ewers of this type,
dated 17th century, are illustrated by R. D. Mowry
in China’s Renaissance in Bronze: The Robert H.
Clague Collection of Later Chinese Bronzes 1100-
1900, Phoenix Art Museum, 1993, p. 131, no. 26.
明末/清初 銅鎏金高士乘舟圖執壺
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