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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE EUROPEAN
COLLECTION
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A LARGE BRONZE BELL, YONGZHONG A similar yongzhong bell with a fat top, bosses, and low-relief stylised
EARLY-MIDDLE WESTERN ZHOU PERIOD (11TH-9TH CENTURY BC) serpent band is found in the Sackler Collection, illustrated by Jessica Rawson
in Western Zhou Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Washington
Both sides of the bell are cast with three rows of projecting bosses, above
a band of low-relief animal-form scrolls to the front. The bronze has a pale D.C., 1990, vol. II B, pp. 748-749.
greenish-grey patina with malachite and azurite encrustation.
17æ in. (45.1 cm.) high See also a set of graduated bells in the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M.
Sackler Gallery, accession no. S1987.6.
£15,000-20,000 $20,000-26,000
€17,000-22,000
西周早/中期 青銅蟠龍紋勇鐘
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s Parke Bernet New York, 4 November 1978, lot 301. 來源:
The collection of Raf Y. Mottahedeh (1901-1978), New York, no. 817, before 14
January 1981. 紐約蘇富比，1978年11月4日，拍品第301號
An important private European collection.
美國紐約重要藏家Rafi Y. Mottahedeh (1901-1978) 私人舊
In J. So (ed.), Music in the Age of Confucius, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur 藏於1981年1月14日前購入，藏品編號817
M. Sackler Gallery, Washington DC, 2000, pp.35-63, R. Bagley explains that 重要歐洲私人珍藏
“sets of bells were both aurally and visually the most prominent instruments
of musical ensembles” in ancient China, but outside of China were unknown.
Bells of this type were made in graduated sizes to form a set, with each bell
emitting two diferent tones, depending on where it was struck.

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