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Bronzes
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Property from a California collector

7095
A cast bronze lobed vessel
Yuan/Ming dynasty
Raised on a high ring foot cast with a tight wave band under a low
set belly divided into five sections set off by blade-shaped reserves
set with abstract taotie masks under a broad band of wanzi lozenges
set off by thin handles cast with dragon heads with long tongues and
draped with spiral ended ropes, all under a key fret border band and
flat lobed rim.
9 1/2in (24.2cm) high
$2,500 - 4,000

For related bronzes, see Sotheby’s Hong Kong, Later Chinese
Bronzes from the Collection of Ulrich Hausmann, 8 October 2014, lots
3302 and 3399.

7096
A cast bronze hu-form vessel
16th/17th century
The lower register cast with an abstracted taotie mask set off by horn-
shaped c-commas under a plain band with projecting blades set with
a spiral and jewel interior under a further band of raised bosses and
zoomorphs on a leiwen ground centered on paired wide spirals raised
on a lozenge and whorl ground at the neck cast with paired horned
beast mask-form handles.
11 3/8in (28.9cm)
$4,000 - 6,000