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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN PRIVATE
COLLECTION
A RARE IMPERIAL GILT-BRONZE TEMPLE
BELL, BIANZHONG
KANGXI MARK AND PERIOD, DATED TO THE
54TH YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 1715
the large bell finely cast, suspended from a double-headed
dragon handle, each beast powerfully rendered with eyes
bulging and nostrils flaring above long curling whiskers, the
mouth open to reveal its tongue thrust between sharp fangs,
with two long studded horns extending back over its head
along a combed mane with finely incised details, the two
scaly bodies intertwined and crouching in ambush, the large
barrel-shaped body of the bell with four panels of alternating
bosses and trigrams, divided by two rectangular panels,
one inscribed with the characters Kangxi wushisi nian zhi
(made in the fifty-fourth year of Kangxi), and the other with
huangzhong, denoting its musical pitch
Height 11 ¾ in., 30 cm
PROVENANCE
P.C. Lu & Sons, Ltd., Hong Kong, 11th July 1987.
$ 200,000-300,000
清康熙五十四年(1715年) 銅鎏金蒲牢鈕
八卦紋「黃鐘」編鐘
《康熙五十四年製》款
字:
黃鐘
來源
魯氏父子有限公司,香港,1987年7月11日
102 SOTHEBY’S COMPLETE CATALOGUING AVAILABLE AT SOTHEBYS.COM/N10644 103