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Property from a Private Rhode Island Collection 重要中४藝術暨高曼珍藏
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A RARE INSCRIBED BRONZE BELL WITH 羅德島私́珍藏 Dongxi Studio
DRAGON-HEADED CLAPPER 東漢 青銅ח文鐘及龍首鐘舌 Property from a Distinguished Private Belgian Collection
Ϝ源
EASTERN HAN DYNASTY (AD 25-220)
安思遠，紐☼，編號B1573，1989年ע 1146
The bell is engraved on either side with a long, vertically oriented inscription 紐☼蘇富比，2002年3月19日，拍品編號142
flanked on one side by a dragon and on the reverse with a bird grasping a fish A GLASS-INSET GILT-BRONZE
in its beak. BELT HOOK
114 in. (29 cm.) high LATE WARRING STATES PERIOD-WESTERN
HAN DYNASTY, LATE 3RD-2ND CENTURY BC
$7,000-10,000
6¿ in. (15.6 cm.) long, cloth box
PROVENANCE: $20,000-30,000
Robert Hatfield Ellsworth Collection, New York, collection no. B1573, by 1989.
The Robert Hatfield Ellsworth Collection: Chinese Archaic & Gilt Bronzes; PROVENANCE:
Sotheby’s New York, 19 March 2002, lot 142. B. K. Wong, Hong Kong, 28 September 1992.
EXHIBITED:
Chinese Jade and Scroll Paintings from the
The inscriptions include a date (seventh day of the fifth month in the Dongxi Collection, Kredietbank Gallery, Brussels,
second year of Yanxi, corresponding to AD 159), acknowledges the 25 October - 17 December 1995; Kredietbank
promotion of an official, and states that this bell is to be passed onto his Luxembourg, 1 February - 13 April 1996.
descendants.
LITERATURE: (detail of monkey)
For other bronze works with engraved decoration of animals and Nicole De Bisscop, Chinese Jade and Scroll
abstract patterns, see the Warring States (AD 475-221 BC) bronze Paintings from the Dongxi Collection, Brussels,
brassard engraved with animals and insects from Jiangchuan county, 1995, p. 53, no. 26.
Yunnan province, and now in the Yunnan Provincial Museum, and the
Western Han bronze arrow quiver engraved with animals and human
figures from Kunming, Yunnan province, and now in the Yunnan This belt hook is related to another gilt-
Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Antiquities, both illustrated bronze example cast in openwork with the
in Hunting and Rituals: Treasures from the Ancient Dian Kingdom scrolling bodies of two dragons that enclose
of Yunnan, Hong Kong, 2004, pp. 140-1, no. 81 and pp. 164-5, no. 94, four circular inlays, dated 1st-2nd century
respectively. BC in the British Museum, illustrated by W.
Watson, The Arts of China to AD 900, New
See, also, the Han-dynasty bronze flatiron engraved with a long Haven/London, 1995, p. 47, pl. 90 (middle).
inscription incorporating a date (made in the sixth year of Yongyuan, Compare, also, the gilt-bronze openwork
corresponding to AD 94) and auspicious wishes for descendants, in the example cast as a dragon with sinuous body
Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Bronze Articles for Daily Use enclosing three white glass circular plaques,
– 28 – The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, dated Western Han, sold at Christie's New
Hong Kong, 2006, p. 147, no. 125. York, 29 March 2006, lot 359 (part).
東西軒：比利時顯㈥私́珍藏
戰४晚期 西漢 銅鎏金ณ琉璃龍首帶鉤
Ϝ源
王炳權，香港，1992年9月28日
展覽
ǙChinese Jade and Scroll Paintings from
the Dongxi Collectionǚ，Kredietbank藝廊，
布魯ਫ਼ḓ，1995年10月25日 12月17日 盧森
ਫ，Kredietbank 藝廊，1996年2月1日 4月13日
֨ḛ
Nicole De Bisscop，ǗChinese Jade and Scroll
Paintings from the Dongxi Collectionǘ，布魯ਫ਼
ḓ，1995年，頁53，編號26

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