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138 PROPERTY FROM A SCOTTISH PRIVATE COLLECTION
PROPERTY OF A BELGIAN COLLECTOR 商末 / 西周初 青銅饕餮紋爵 LOTS 139-145
AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, JUE
LATE SHANG/EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY 來源
P. Delplace，布魯塞爾
the deep U-shaped body raised on three splayed blade feet, 布魯塞爾私人收藏
cast with a band of taotie masks reserved on a dense leiwen
ground, one side set with a loop handle, beneath a long,
channelled spout opposite a raised point forming the rim,
surmounted by a pair of rectangular posts rising to mushroom-
cap finials two pictograms below the handle, wood stand
Height 19 cm, 7½ in.
PROVENANCE
P. Delplace, Brussels.
Private Collection, Brussels.
£ 15,000-25,000

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A SMALL BRONZE ‘RHINOCEROS’ WATER- A RARE SMALL BRONZE EQUESTRIAN GROUP
DROPPER HAN DYNASTY
SONG DYNASTY OR LATER
the horse standing four-square with head raised and looking
standing four-square with horned head raised and looking forwards, the rider wearing a long tunic and with hands held
forward, the tail curled around the left side of the hindquarters, together as if holding the reigns
the hollow body set with a cylindrical aperture in the middle of Height 6.5 cm, 2½ in.
the back
Length 12 cm, 4¾ in. PROVENANCE
Christie’s London, 14th December 1987, lot 270.
PROVENANCE
Acquired from Peter Wain, Shropshire, 2000. £ 3,000-5,000
£ 2,000-3,000 漢 銅騎馬俑
宋或以後 銅犀牛形水注 來源
倫敦佳士得1987年12月14日，編號270
來源
Peter Wain，什羅普郡，2000年

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