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AN ARCHAISTIC BRONZE VASE AND A
BRONZE TRIPOD INCENSE BURNER
Ming Dynasty
The baluster vase with a border around the
shoulders enclosing taotie masks reserved
on diaper grounds suspending cicada blades
around the similarly-decorated body, the
shoulders set with a pair of taotie-mask ring
handles, the exterior with warm chestnut
patina with green encrustation, 28.4cm
(11 3/16in) high; the incense burner of
compressed globular form rising on three tall
flared elephant legs, the cylindrical neck cast
with an archaistic band enclosing a taotie
mask on a leiwen ground below the flared flat
rim, the exterior with a warm brown patina,
13.4cm (5 5/16in) high.(2).

£1,200 - 1,500
CNY11,000 - 14,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at
No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

明 銅製活環耳蟬紋瓶 及銅三足爐 各一

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A VERY LARGE BRONZE YENYEN VASE
Xuande six-character mark, 17th/18th century
Heavily cast, the exterior entirely plain, the tall
flaring neck set with two crescent handles
above two horizontal ribs at the shoulder,
the surface overall with an even pale glossy
patination.
65cm (25 1/2in) high.

£8,000 - 12,000
CNY72,000 - 110,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at
No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

十七/十八世紀 銅雙戟耳大鳳尾尊
「大明宣德年製」楷書款
Published, Illustrated and Exhibited:
Roger Keverne Ltd., Winter Exhibition,
London, 2011, no.11.
展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，
《冬季展覽》，倫敦，2011年，編號11

For a related bronze yenyen vase with dragon
handles, Xuande mark, 16th-18th century,
see Sydney L Moss Ltd., The Second Bronze
Age: Later Chinese Metalwork, London, 1991,
no.65; and for a blue and white vase of similar
form, Jiajing/Wanli, see A.Frank, Chinese Blue
and White, New York, 1969, p.51.
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