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A Bronze Bell A Bronze ‘squirrel AnD grApes’ Brushpot
Ming Dynasty 19th or 20th century
Heavily cast and with a waved edge, encircled with the Eight Trigrams, The cylindrical vessel with a flaring mouth rim, cast in high-relief to the
ba gua, bosses and latticework in low relief, crowned with a loop exterior with a scrolling leafy vine suspending bunches of grapes, with
formed as a double-headed dragon, with lappet decoration. two tree shrews perched amongst the fruit, raised on three stepped
21cm (8 1/4in) high feet.
10.9cm (4 1/4in) high

£1,000 - 1,500 HK$12,000 - 18,000 £600 - 1,000 HK$7,100 - 12,000
CNY9,500 - 14,000 CNY5,700 - 9,500

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A Bronze peAr-shApeD vAse An ArChAistiC Bronze vAse, gu
Xuande six-character mark, 17th/18th century Ming Dynasty
The vessel heavily cast and with a band of archaistic taotie eyes on With broad flaring neck and foot, the mid-section cast with a band of
a keyfret diaper ground at the shoulder, between a lotus leaf lappet taotie masks on a key fret ground, flanked by a pair of tubular handles.
band and another lappet border, flanked with two beast mask handles 22.5cm (8.7/8in) high.
suspending beaded loops, raised on a short foot rim encircled with key
fret. £500 - 700
16.9cm (6 5/8in) high CNY4,700 - 6,600

£2,500 - 3,500 HK$5,900 - 8,300
CNY24,000 - 33,000
HK$30,000 - 41,000

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