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AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD
WINE VESSEL AND COVER, HOULOU
Western Han Dynasty
The vessel of rounded shape supported on three
short curling legs, applied to the upper body with
a pair of loop fittings linked to a chain handle, the
domed cover with two ring handles, the surface
encrusted with areas of malachite.
25cm (9 7/8in) high. (2).

£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

西漢 銅銗鏤

See a similar example illustrated by R.Y.Lefebvre
d’Argencé, Bronze Vessels of Ancient China in
The Avery Brundage Collection, San Francisco,
1977, pl.LIX; and see also an example in the
National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated by
Yu Kuo-Ching, Rituals Cast in Brilliance: Chinese
Bronzes Through the Ages, Taipei, 2014, p.162.

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AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL WINE
VESSEL AND COVER, BIANHU
Han Dynasty
Of flattened oval shape raised on a rectangular
hollow base, the sides with grooved bands,
and applied with a pair of taotie masks at the
shoulders, each suspending loose rings, the
domed cover incised with a double mask, the
bronze with a mottled dark green patina.
31cm (12 1/4in) wide.

£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 青銅扁壺

See a related example illustrated by D.Failla,
Food for the Ancestors Flowers for the Gods:
Transformations of Archaistic Bronzes in China
and Japan, Genoa, 2017, no.7.13. See also
another example illustrated by Takayasu Higuchi
and Minao Hayashi, Ancient Chinese Bronzes
in The Sakamoto Collection, Tokyo, 2002,
nos.234–240; See also another bianhu, Western
Han dynasty, illustrated by J.C.S.Lin, The Search
for Immortality: Tomb Treasures of Han China,
Cambridge, 2012, no.46, in the collection of
Xuzhou Museum.

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