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808 A SET OF SIX SMALL GILT-BRONZE 北齊至隋ǭ鎏金銅禮器一組六։
VOTIVE VESSELS
NORTHERN QI-SUI DYNASTY (AD 550-618)
The set comprises two miniature stem cups, a larger stem cup with Ϝ源
fitted cover, a miniature funnel, a small banded bulbous storage 年前入藏於香港
vessel and cover (hu), and a compressed pear-shaped vase (tuohu). 藍理捷
紐約
編號
Each vessel is richly gilded with scattered areas of bright malachite
green and azurite blue patination.
Stem cups: 1¿ in. (2.9 cm.) high; 1¡ in. (3.5 cm.) high,
fitted softwood stand
Covered stem cup: 2º in. (5.7 cm.) high
Funnel: 1¬ in. (4.1 cm.) high
Covered hu: 3 in. (7.6 cm.) high
Tuohu: 2æ in. (7 cm.) high (6)
$30,000-40,000
PROVENANCE:
Acquired in Hong Kong prior to 2000.
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 3906.
A group of small votive vessels is illustrated by A. Juliano, Art
of the Six Dynasties, New York, 1975, pp. 38-40, particularly
the tuohu, cat. no. 16, with a lengthy discussion of the early
adoption of this type of Chinese bronze vessel for use in
Buddhist rituals. See, also, the group of small bronze vessels
discovered in the Western Han royal tomb of Liu Fei (169-127
BC), the King of Jiangdu, at Dayun Mountain in Xuyi, Jiangsu
province, illustrated by Xu (ed.), Tomb Treasures: New Discoveries
from China’s Han Dynasty, San Francisco, 2017, p. 120, no. 43.

Two small Han dynasty hu-shaped gilt-bronze vessels are
illustrated by P. Singer in Early Chinese Miniatures, New York,
1977, p. 34, no. 55 (from the Los Angeles County Museum of
Art), and on p. 40, no. 75 (from the British Museum).

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