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IMPORTANT CHINESE ART INCLUDING THE COLLECTION OF DOROTHY TAPPER GOLDMAN 重要中४藝術暨高曼珍藏

Property from a Private Rhode Island Collection Property from a Private Rhode Island Collection
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TWO SMALL BRONZE BELLS A BRONZE BELL, YONGZHONG
EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY (770-256 BC) LATE SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD, 6TH-5TH
CENTURY BC
12¬ in. (32 cm.) high and 8º in. (21 cm.) high
10 in. (26 cm.) high
$7,000-10,000
$10,000-15,000
PROVENANCE:
The larger: Sotheby’s New York, 30 March 1996, PROVENANCE:
lot 70. Leon Earl Colvin (1894-1956) and Ruth Louise
The smaller: William Doyle Galleries, New York, Walmsley Colvin (1897-1965) Collection, Essex
23 October 1997, lot 186. Falls, New Jersey, before 1956.
羅德島私́珍藏
東周 青銅鐘Չ件 Compare the very similar bronze bell, but
Ϝ源 of slightly larger size (28.5 cm.), from the
૯件：紐☼蘇富比，1996年3月30日，拍品編號70 collection of Charles and Margot Nesbitt, sold
小件：William Doyle藝廊，紐☼，1997年10月23日， at Christie’s New York, 17-18 March 2016, lot
拍品編號186 1400.
羅德島私́珍藏
Property from a Private Rhode Island Collection 春秋晚期 Ռ元עՍ至̩ˠ紀 青銅甬鐘
1143 Ϝ源
Leon Earl Colvin 1894 1956
及Ruth Louise
A RARE BRONZE BELL, ZHENG Walmsley Colvin 1897 1965
珍藏，埃ਫ਼Գ斯瀑布
WARRING STATES PERIOD, 4TH-3RD CENTURY 郡，新澤西，Ն藏於1956年ע
BC
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15q in. (40 cm.) high, metal stand
$6,000-8,000
PROVENANCE:
Leon Earl (1894-1956) and Ruth Louise Walmsley
(1897-1965) Colvin Collection, Essex Falls, New
Jersey, before 1956.

A very similar bronze bell of comparable size
from Fuling, Sichuan province, is illustrated
by J. So in Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from
the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, The Arthur
M. Sackler Foundation, 1995, p. 397, fig. 81.2,
rd
where it is dated 4 -3 century BC. Another
th
similar bell dated to the Warring States period
is in the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M.
Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D.C., acc. no. S1999.120.19.
羅德島私́珍藏
戰४ 青銅鉦
Ϝ源
Leon Earl 1894 1956
及Ruth Louise Walmsley
1897 1965
Colvin 珍藏,埃ਫ਼Գ斯瀑布郡，新澤西，
Ն藏於1956年ע

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