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A LARGE INSCRIBED BRONZE TEMPLE BELL 明天啟丙寅年（1626年） 銅交龍鈕鐘
DATED TIANQI BINGYIN YEAR,
CORRESPONDING TO 1626 銘文：
天啟丙寅年孟秋吉日旦 上海縣二十保龍王廟弟子陸
cast around the lower body with two inscriptions reading 子清置
Tianqi bingyin nian mengqiu jiri dan (on the first day of the
seventh month of the bingyin year of Tianqi) and Shanghai 皇圖永固 帝道遐昌 道日增輝 法輪常轉
xian ershi baolongwangmiao dizi Lu Ziqing zhi (disciple Lu 來源
Ziqing commissioned [this bell] for the Dragon King Temples
at the twentieth bao in the Shanghai county) 紐約佳士得1998年9月16日，編號263
Height 14⅞ in., 38 cm
PROVENANCE
Christie’s New York, 16th September 1998, lot 263.
$ 15,000-20,000
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