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A cast bronze hu-form vessel
Ming dynasty
The low-slung belly cast with shaped oval panels in the Western
Zhou style enclosed with key-fret borders and accented by diamond-
shaped bosses at each juncture below leaf-form panels set between
lobed sections cast with raised disintegrated C-commas projecting
downward from a double banded neck rendered with abstract taotie
masks under a plain banded lip, the double band accented with
applied circular handles suspending single rings.
12in (30.5cm) high
$2,500 - 4,000

For hu-form vases with related decoration, see Robert Mowry, China’s
Renaissance in Bronze: the Robert M. Clague Collection of Later
Chinese Bronzes 1100-1900, 1993, figure 6, dated to the 12th/14th
century; and Sotheby’s, Hong Kong, Later Chinese Bronzes from the
Collection of Ulrich Hausmann, 8 October 2014, lots 3320 and 3325.

Property from the collection of Frank and
Georgia James

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A circular bronze tripod censer with dragon
handles
Late Qing/Republic period
The bulbous body raised on three curved lags and deeply cast qilin

and other mythical beasts frolicking amidst foaming waves, each of

the two handles formed as scaly dragons with high-arched backs,

the cover with a band of reticulated cloud scrolls surmounted by a

slumbering elephant supporting on its back a vase piled high with

ingots (surface wear).

10in (25.5cm) wide

$1,500 - 2,500

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