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A RARE SET OF ARCHAIC MINIATURE RITUAL BRONZE AN ARCHAIC BRONZE INCENSE BURNER AND COVER AND A
VESSELS BRONZE ‘EAR’ CUP
Han Dynasty Han Dynasty
Comprising a stove, zao, the boat-shaped vessel on four small feet, The incense burner raised on three curling legs terminating in hoof
incorporating a steamer, zeng, two bowls and two spoons; a warming feet, the hemispherical lower body fitted with a curved handle,
bowl; a footed lamp, decorated with mountains on the spreading the hinged openwork domed cover pierced with meandering
foot, with a long curved handle issuing from the shallow bowl; two foliage, 14.7cm (5 3/4in) long; the ear cup, of oval form with deep
pear-shaped vases, hu, and covers, one of which of square section; a rounded and slightly flaring sides flanked by two crescent-shaped
pear-shaped vase; a footed ‘mountain’ incense burner and reticulated handles raised on a flat base, the bronze with extensive malachite
cover, boshanlu; and a circular tripod food vessel and cover, ding, encrustation, 17cm (6 3/4in) wide. (2).
the vessel with a pair of rectangular upright loop handles, the domed
cover with three short handles doubling as feet in the shape of stylised £1,200 - 1,500
dragons. The stove 22cm (8 5/8in) long. (18). CNY11,000 - 14,000
£6,000 - 8,000 Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價
CNY54,000 - 72,000
漢 行爐形銅熏爐 及青銅耳杯 一組兩件
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價
Provenance: Professor Peter H. Plesch (1918-2013) and Mrs Traudi
漢 微型銅器 一組十一件 Plesch OBE (1921-2013), no.B417 (label; the ear cup)

Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Summer Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Winter
Exhibition, London, 2002, no.11. Exhibition, London, 2006, no.12 (the small bronze incense burner)

展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展覽》，倫敦，2002年， 來源：英國Peter H. Plesch教授（1918-2013）與大英帝國官佐勳章
編號11 獲勳人Traudi Plesch伉儷舊藏，藏品編號B417（標籤，青銅耳杯）

It is rare to find such a complete set of ritual vessels. See a bronze 展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展覽》，倫敦，2006年，
set from Tomb 42 at Jinyanggang (Luoyang, Henan Province), in the 編號12（銅熏爐）
collection of the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences, illustrated in Han Dynasty: New Light on Ancient China after Professor Peter Hariolf Plesch, friend and doctor of Albert Einstein,
2000 Years, Osaka, 1999, p.70, no.51; and another example in the left Frankfurt with his father in 1933. Educated at Harrow School and
collection of Museé Cernuschi, Paris, published by C.Deydier, Chinese Trinity College, Cambridge, he was fascinated by Chinese glass and
Bronzes, New York, 1980, p.131, no.100. had the billiard room in his house converted into a private museum.
Also a collector of Song ceramics and a long-standing member of
the Oriental Ceramic Society, he once lent a ruyao narcissus bowl he
purchased from the J.T. Tai Collection to the Society’s Song exhibition.

See a related pair of bronze ‘ear’ cups, illustrated by B.Karlgren
and J.Wirgin, Chinese Bronzes: The Natanael Wessén Collection,
Stockholm, 1969, pl.46.

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