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PROPERTY OF CLAIRE AND FRANCIS HERITAGE LANE LITERATURE
910 Sano Art Museum, Sano Bijutsukan zohinsho, 1986, p. 77, no. 103.
A BRONZE TRIPOD WINE VESSEL AND COVER, HU
A similar hu, dated Han dynasty, 2nd-1st century BC, is illustrated by C.
HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220) Deydier, Les Bronzes Chinois, Paris, 1980, no. 81. Unlike the single, pierced,
The pear-shaped vessel is raised on three hoof supports, and has a yoke fat fnial in the center of the cover of the present hu, the cover of the
handle with dragon-head terminals attached by double linked chains to rings published vessel has three simplifed animal-form rings spaced evenly near
suspended from a pair of loop handles. The ftted cover with sloping sides is the edge, which would have functioned as supports when the cover was
surmounted by a small pierced fnial. The surface has a mottled grey and pale inverted.
green patina.
8Ω in. (21.5 cm.) high with handle, Japanese wood box 漢 青銅提鏈蓋壺
$8,000-12,000
PROVENANCE
Kinpei Takeuchi (1873-1960).
Kyuichi Sano (1889-1977), acquired in Tokyo, 1950s.
Sano Art Museum, Mishima, Japan.
Christie’s New York, 21 March 2013, lot 1247.
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