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359
A small bronze jar and cover, hu
and a mountain-shaped incense
burner, boshanlu
Possibly Han Dynasty
The pear-shaped vessel cast with taotie mask
handles at the shoulder, the lid with a quatre-
foil foliate motif with a loose ring handle; the
bowl-shaped censer raised on a spreading
stem foot, the pierced lid cast in imitation of a
mythical mountain; together with a South-East
Asian bronze figure of the Buddha Sakyamuni,
wood stand.
The vase and cover: 20cm (7 7/8in) high (4).

£500 - 800 HK$5,900 - 9,500
CNY4,700 - 7,600

359 360
Two bronze horse fittings and a
360 group of metal wares
Possibly Late Shang/Early Western Zhou
361 Dynasty and later
142 | Bonhams Comprising: a circular bronze jingle with
hollow fitting, fitted wood stand; another
horse fitting of strap-form with double jingles,
cast with diaper patterns, fitted wood stand;
together with a conical bronze water dropper
with a chilong handle, Late Ming Dynasty;
a Warring States-style parcel-gilt staff finial
modelled as a bird; and an Ordos-style figure
of a horse, wood stand.
The largest chariot fitting: 32.8cm (12 7/8in)
wide (9).

£500 - 800 HK$5,900 - 9,500
CNY4,700 - 7,60

For two similar chariot fittings dated Late
Shang to Western Zhou see the Los Angeles
County Museum of Art no. AC1998.251.54
and no. AC1998.251.38.

361
A pair of Ordos-style plaques and
a bronze vase, fang hu
Each cast as a mythical beast with long claws
and a ferocious face, fitted wood stands; the
small bronze pear-shaped vase embellished
with taotie mask handles to the shoulders,
possibly Han Dynasty, wood stand.
The plaques each: 31.5cm (12 1/2in) high; the
hu vase: 16.5cm (6 1/2in) high

£500 - 800 HK$5,900 - 9,500
CNY4,700 - 7,600

A laboratory report [Number 91144/dated
11.5.1999] conducted by Dr. A.T.N. Bennett
at Birkbeck College, University of London,
concluded that the copper alloy composition
of the Ordos style bronze figures implied that
both figures were not of ancient origin.