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PROPERTY FROM THE ROBERT AND MEE-DIN MOORE PROPERTY FROM THE ROBERT AND MEE-DIN MOORE
COLLECTION COLLECTION
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AN ARCHAISTIC PATINATED BRONZE BALUSTER VASE AN UNUSUAL ELONGATED OVIFORM BRONZE TWO-
Ming/Qing dynasty HANDLED VASE
With an attractive dark patina, the rounded shoulder with a wide 17th/18th century or earlier
band of high-relief bird-motifs on a leiwen ground divided at the All under an attractive soft dark-coppery patina, with small vertical
sides by taotie-mask loose-ring handles, the lower body with six cylindrical handles on the shoulder and below the waisted garlic-
floral-decorated leiwen-ground ‘blade’ pendants and the neck with a headed neck, a single loop attachment above the narrow waisted and
stylized taotie-mask leiwen-ground band. spreading foot foot.
13 ½in (34.3cm) high, box 13 1/2in (34.3cm) high, inscribed box
$2,000 - 4,000 $1,500 - 2,500

明/清 雙耳銅瓶 十七/十八世紀或更早 銅瓶

This archaistic vessel is an odd mix of an Eastern Zhou bronze vessel,
you of the (11-10th Century BCE), see Christian Deydier, Chinese
Bronzes, Friborg, Switzerland, 1980, pp.74-75, no. 52, in combination
with a Han dynasty garlic-headed vase, see Bonhams, New York, 19
March 2018, lot 8192.

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