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A PAIR OF ARCHAIC BRONZE SQUARE
VASES AND COVERS, FANGHU
Han Dynasty
Each with a faceted baluster body raised on a
square flared foot, the sides plain, the shoulder with
two relief-cast taotie mask handles suspending
loose rings, the conical covers applied with stylised
bird finials at the corners, the brown and milky-
green patina with malachite encrustation.
32cm (12 1/2in) high. (4).
£2,000 - 3,000
CNY18,000 - 27,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve.
本拍品不設底價

漢 青銅鋪首耳方壺一對

See a related example illustrated in Da Han Chu
Wang: Xuzhou Xihan Chu Wan Lingmu Wenwu
Jicui, Xuzhou, 2005, p.186; see another example
illustrated by Takayasu Higuchi and Minao Hayashi,
Ancient Chinese Bronzes in The Sakamoto
Collection, Tokyo, 2002, nos.222–224.

458
TWO POTTERY RITUAL TRIPOD FOOD
VESSELS AND COVERS, DING, AND A
POTTERY GREEN-GLAZED TRIPOD INCENSE
BURNER AND COVER, LIAN 457
Han Dynasty
The first, of compressed globular shape with
upright handles and three short legs, washed
overall in creamy-white slip and painted on
top of the cover with a swan within a C-scroll
border,17cm (6 1/2in) wide; the second, of
similar form but green-glazed, the cover with two
overlapping fish, the surface partially iridescent,
16cm (6 1/2in) wide; and a green-glazed cylindrical
tripod incense burner and cover, the body with
moulded taotie-mask handles, the cover with
geometric bands. 19.5cm (7 3/4in) diam. (6).
£1,000 - 1,500
CNY9,100 - 14,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve.
本拍品不設底價

漢 陶蓋鼎兩件 及陶奩式爐 一組三件

Published, Illustrated and Exhibited:
Roger Keverne Ltd., Summer Exhibition, London,
2002, no.31 (the cylindrical incense burner and
cover). 458
Roger Keverne Ltd., Winter Exhibition, London,
2007, no.23 (painted ding).

展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展覽》，
倫敦，2002年，編號31（奩式爐）
Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展覽》，倫敦，2007
年，編號23（彩繪鼎）

For a similar cylindrical tripod jar and cover, Han
dynasty, see B.Laufer, Chinese Pottery of the Han
Dynasty, 1962, pl.LIX, no.2; see another tripod
jar and cover illustrate by J.P.Dubosc, Mostra
d’Arte Cinese, Venice, 1954, no.287; and one in
the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, illustrated by
W.Watson, Pre-Tang Ceramics of China: Chinese
Pottery from 4000 BC to 600 AD, London, 1991,
pl.78. For a painted pottery ding vessel, unearthed
in 1986 in Luoyang City, Henan Province, see
G.Wong, Treasures from the Han, Singapore, 1990,
p.90,

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