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PROPERTY FROM A GERMAN FAMILY COLLECTION
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AN ARCHAISTIC BRONZE VESSEL AND COVER, YOU
YONGZHENG-QIANLONG PERIOD (1723-1795)
The you vessel is finely cast on each side of the body with a large taotie mask formed by a
pair of confronted dragons, their raised, hooked tails positioned above small birds, below
a pairs of dragons confronting an animal-mask. The cover is decorated on each side of
the top with a taotie mask above two backward-looking dragons on the sides. The arched
handle is cast with phoenix pattern on top and leiwen on the side, terminating in two
animal-heads. The base is cast with a fourteen-character inscription.
16 æ in. (42.5 cm.) high, box
HK$400,000-600,000 US$52,000-78,000
PROVENANCE
An old Berlin private collection (by repute)
The inscription can be translated as:
‘May the offspring of the next ten thousand years treasure this. Made by Taiying Hall.’
清雍正 / 乾隆 銅仿古饕餮紋卣
款識：其萬年子子孫孫永寶用作臺英堂
來源
柏林私人珍藏（傳）
德國家族珍藏
inscription
銘文
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