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A BRONZE JAR, HU
HAN DYNASTY (3RD CENTURY BC-3RD CENTURY AD)

漢 青銅雙獸活環耳壺

The compressed globular body is cast with raised concentric rings, decorated to the sides with a pair
of monster-mask handles with loose rings, supported on a tall spreading foot with vertical fanges. The
bronze has a dark greenish-grey patina with areas of encrustation.

14Ω in. (36.8 cm.) high

£10,000-15,000 $16,000-23,000
€14,000-21,000

PROVENANCE

The Takeuchi Collection, Kyoto, Japan.
With Shogado & Co., Japan, before June 1982.
From an important private European collection.

Compare with a very similar hu with raised concentric rings on the body and tall foot sold at Christie’s
New York, 1-2 April 2009, lot. 214. See another example illustrated by E. A Voretzsch in Altchinesische
Bronzen,Berlin, 1924, p. 179, fg. 81.

來源:
日本京都 Takeuchi舊藏
於1982年6月前購自日本古董Shogado & Co.
重要歐洲私人珍藏

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