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TWO BRONZE VASES
8007 Ming dynasty
The first, being a bottle vase of pear form, rising on a splayed foot, to
8008 a wide mouth, with two beast-masks issuing c-handles, the second,
6 | BONHAMS being a bottle vase with a tall foot supporting a compressed globular
body rising to a long, thin neck with a garlic-shaped mouth, the
neck with a ring band and the surface inlaid, likely in silver, with scroll
designs.
10 1/2in (26.7cm) high

US$2,000 - 3,000

明 銅蒜頭瓶及銅獸耳瓶

Rose Kerr illustrates a bronze vase, from the collection of the Victoria
and Albert Museum, similar to the first handled vase and dated 12th-
14th century, in Later Chinese Bronzes, London, 1990, p. 41, fig. 27.
The small garlic-mouth vase is related to an example also published in
Later Chinese Bronzes, London, 1990, p. 64, fig. 50, dated 16th-17th
century and from the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

8007
A BRONZE VASE, HU
18th/19th century
Cast in baluster form, the vase rises on a two-tiered, hexagonal,
splayed foot supporting a hexagonal pear-form body, each side
decorated with an upright, blade-shaped panel enclosing key-fret and
spiral scroll decoration, the neck with a wide key-fret band centered on
a whorling boss on front and back, the neck also adorned with beast-
masks issuing c-scroll handles, with a tiered mouth.
7 3/4in (19.6cm) high

US$1,000 - 1,500

十八或十九世紀 銅迴紋地象耳壺

See a baluster-form vase with related beast-masks, key-fret patterns,
and similar quality of casting, sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 8 October
2014, sale HK0558, lot 3302, from the collection of Ulrich Hausmann.

8008
TWO ARCHAISTIC BRONZE CENSERS
Ming dynasty and 18th/19th century
The first censer, of Ming date, in the form of a tripod ding, with three
straight, circular legs supporting a globular body, the sides cast with
pendant blade-form cartouches enclosing stylized cicadas set against
a key-fret ground, with a further decorative band of bosses just below
the everted lip, with two upright handles, with later wood cover; the
second censer, of 18th/19th century date and of fangding form with
four straight, circular legs supporting a rectangular body, the sides of
curved profile, each cast with a large taotie mask set against a key-fret
ground, each corner with a projecting flange, the waisted shoulder
supporting a flat, projecting lip issuing two upright handles, with later
wood cover and wood stand.
5 1/2in (14cm) height of the larger censer

US$2,000 - 3,000

明及十八或十九世紀 銅垂葉紋三足鼎及銅饕餮紋四足方鼎