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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION PROVENANCE A LARGE GILT-SPLASHED BRONZE
Sydney L. Moss Ltd., London, 17th December TWO-HANDLED VASE
A LARGE BRONZE DRAGON- 1991. 17TH / 18TH CENTURY
HANDLED VASE Collection of Rodman C. Rockefeller (1932-
17TH / 18TH CENTURY 2000), New York. stoutly cast with the baluster-form body
surmounted by a tall trumpet neck, anked by a
the wide-shouldered body surmounted by a tall LITERATURE pair of dragon-form handles, the shoulder applied
trumpet neck, incised with a kuilong band and The Second Bronze Age: Later Chinese Metalwork, with three lion masks alternating with sinuous
Sydney L. Moss, Ltd., London, 1991, cat. no. 65. chilong, the surface of a deep brown color ecked
anked by attened addorsed kuilong handles with irregular gold splashes
above two raised llets, the body unadorned $ 15,000-20,000 Height 26 in., 66.2 cm
except for petal-lappets encircling the shoulder
and a row of bosses above the foot, the base cast PROVENANCE
in sunken relief with a four-character Xuande seal
mark Roger Keverne, Ltd., London.
Height 21½ in., 54.6 cm
Sydney L Moss Ltd 1991 12 See a vase of this type, also cast on the shoulder
with masks, sold in our London rooms, 11th May
17 2011, lot 236; another sold at Christie’s London,
23rd May 1985, lot 156; a third sold at Christie’s
Rodman C Rockefeller 1932 2000 New York, 19th September 2007, lot 44. See also
a baluster vase of similar proportions and cast
The Second Bronze Age Later Chinese with a band of lappets around the shoulder and
bosses around the foot, sold at Christie’s Hong
Metalwork Sydney L Moss Ltd Kong, 26th November 2014, lot 3387.
1991 65 $ 20,000-30,000
Roger Keverne Ltd
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