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ANOTHER PROPERTY PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE CANADIAN COLLECTION
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AN UNUSUAL GOLD-SPLASHED BRONZE RECTANGULAR AN ARCHAISTIC GOLD AND SILVER-INLAID BRONZE JAR, HU
OPENWORK LOCK OR FITTING SONG-MING DYNASTY (AD 960-1644)
LATE MING DYNASTY, 16TH -17TH CENTURY The pear-shaped body is inlaid in silver with bands of pairs of confronted
The front is cast in openwork with a horned, three-clawed dragon pulling dragons within rectangular borders, interrupted by a pair of gold-inlaid taotie
itself up from the bottom to the top amidst layers of scrolling lingzhi stems, masks suspending rings on the shoulder and another pair on the lower body.
the design highlighted with gold splashes. Attached to the back is a hinged The foot is inlaid in silver with a rope-twist band.
back-plate cast in openwork in the center with a lingzhi sprig that folds down 11æ in. (28.9 cm.) high
to form the center of a rectangular tube into which a key would be inserted.
3 in. (7.6 cm.) high, cloth box $10,000-15,000

$3,000-5,000 宋/明 銅錯金銀龍紋壺

Stylistically this unusual lock or ftting can be compared to jade plaques
of Ming date in which a dragon is shown amidst lingzhi or fower scroll,
such as the white jade square belt plaque carved in openwork and dated
to the Ming dynasty, illustrated in Jades of Tang through Qing Dynasties,
Taipei, 2002, pl. 59.
晚明十六/十七世紀 銅灑金鏤雕空螭龍靈芝紋鎖或帶飾

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