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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE EUROPEAN
COLLECTION
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Compare the present lot with a niuzhong bell with a similar simple form, fat
A SMALL BRONZE BELL, YONGZHONG top, no bosses and low-relief ornamentation in the Freer Gallery of Art and
EARLY SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD (7TH-6TH CENTURY BC) Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Washington, accession no. RLS1997.48.658.
The exterior is cast in relief with two mirrored panels of scrolling designs above
a shaped horizontal panel of similar decoration. The loop handle to the top is See also a bell with similar slender, raised scroll patterns, illustrated in
cast with a geometric band. The surface has a mottled dark grey patina with Catherine Delacour, De Bronze, d'or et d'argent, Arts somptuaires de la Chine,
light malachite encrustation. Paris, 2001, p.43.
8æ in. (22.1 cm.) high
£6,000–8,000 $7,900–10,000 春秋早期 青銅蟠虺紋勇鐘
€6,700–8,900
來源:
PROVENANCE:
With Rare Art, Inc., New York, before 14 January 1981. 於1981年1月14日前購自美國紐約古董商Rare Art, Inc.
An important private European collection.
重要歐洲私人珍藏

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