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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

































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