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ANOTHER PROPERTY
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A RARE LARGE BRONZE BELL, BO
LATE SPRING AND AUTUMN-EARLY WARRING STATES PERIOD,
6TH-5TH CENTURY BC
The bell of lenticular section is decorated on each side with a plain, central, vertical panel dividing two
quadrangular panels outlined by bow-string borders, each enclosing three horizontal rows of three coiled
dragon bosses, and dividing bands of interlocked snake motifs. The latter pattern is repeated in a wide
band above the mouth, and on the fat top below the loop handle formed by a pair of addorsed dragons
joined by an inverted U-shaped bar. The bronze has a silvery grey patina.
17º in. (43.7 cm.) high, Japanese wood box
$100,000-150,000

PROVENANCE
Private collection, Japan, acquired prior to 1993.
EXHIBITED
Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts, Chugoku sengoku jidai no bijutsu
(The Art of the Warring States Period), 1991.
New York, Kaikodo, Time Travellers, 11 March - 8 April 2009.
LITERATURE
Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts, Chugoku sengoku jidai no bijutsu
(The Art of the Warring States Period), Osaka, 1991, no. 104.
Kaikodo, Kaikodo Journal, Hong Kong, 2009, no. 3.
春秋晚期/戰國早期 青銅蟠虺紋鎛

The present bell as illustrated in the exhibition catalogue Chugoku (Japanese wood box)
sengoku jidai no bijutsu (The Art of the Warring States Period),
Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts, 1991, no. 104.

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