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           A SUPERB ARCHAISTIC COPPERY-BRONZE TWO-HANDLED     For the archaic pre-cursor from the Eastern Zhou period (early 5th
           VASE, HU                                           century BCE), see Jessica Rawson, Chinese Bronzes, Art and Ritual,
           Ming/Qing dynasty                                  British Museum, London, 1987, pp. 88-89, no. 34. See also Ma
           Cast with three wide relief bands of archaistic dragons and birds   Chengyuan, Ancient Chinese Bronzes, Oxford, 1986, pp. 85-86,
           on a whorl and leiwen ground above a thin taotie band to the short   pl. 60. for a hu from the Late Spring and Autumn Period (770-476
           spreading foot, the neck with two animal-headed loop handles, an   BCE); and also Pope, Gettens, Cahill and Barnard, The Freer Chinese
           indecipherable square seal to the base.            Bronzes, Vol. I, Washington DC., 1967, pp. 496-497, pl. 91 for
           10 3/4in (27.3cm) high                             another.
           $2,500 - 3,500

           明/清 仿古雙耳銅壺






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