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A VERY RARE AND LARGE BRONZE 'BOYS' STUPA-SHAPED
ARROW VASE, TOUHU
Ming Dynasty
Elaborately and robustly cast in the form of a Buddhist stupa
decorated with geometric patterns, leafy lotus, butterflies and the
bajixiang, with sixteen boys, some playing various musical instruments,
four boys around the mouth holding drums in the shape of hollow
tubes above two other boys holding the drums overhead, the shoulder
with four seated boys, the base of the stupa with six more boys sitting
on a double lotus-petal base issuing four auspicious lingzhi fungus,
the rounded base incised with floral scroll with four foreigners holding
tubular drums, all raised on a tiered foot incised with an archaistic
geometrical band.
55.3cm (21 3/4in) high, 14.3kg.

HKD500,000 - 800,000
US$64,000 - 100,000

明 銅童子胡人投壺
Provenance:
Christie's South Kensington, London, 22 October 1987
The Brian Harkins Collection

來源：
倫敦佳士得南肯辛頓，1987年10月22日
布萊恩·哈金斯珍藏

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