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A RARE COPPER INLAID BRONZE RITUAL STEM BOWL AND COVER, DOU

WARRING STATES PERIOD (5TH-3RD CENTURY BC)

戰國 青銅雙耳豆

The vessel is of compressed globular form, with a pair of loop handles to the sides, supported on a tall
spreading foot decorated with animal-form blades and bands of twisted ropes. Lozenges of copper inlay
surround the rim of the bowl, and the cover is surmounted by a circular fnial decorated with geometric
designs, also with triangular copper inlay. The surface has a pale grey patina with malachite and azurite
encrustation.

12º in/ (31.1 cm.) high

£20,000-30,000 $32,000-47,000
€28,000-41,000

PROVENANCE

With Rare Art, Inc., New York, before 1975.
From an important private European collection.

Compare with a dou in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Masterworks of Chinese Bronze
in the National Palace Museum, (Supplement), Taipei, 1973, no. 22; p.102. Although slightly compressed in
height, this dou is similar in form, with faring fnial on the lid, ring handles as well as ornamentation, using
similar decorative motifs described by the Palace Museum as ‘wave-crests’, and triangular animal leiwen.

The design of copper inlay is similar to that on a turquoise-inlaid dou and cover in the Beijing Palace
Museum collection, illustrated in Palace Museum Beijing, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the
Palace Museum, Beijing, 27: Bronze Ritual Vessels and Musical Instruments, Hong Kong, 2006, no. 63.

Two examples of lidded dou with a shorter stem are illustrated by J. So in Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from
the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York, 1995, pp. 178-179, no. 24, and pp. 186-187, no. 26.

來源:
於1975年前購自美國紐約古董商Rare Art，Inc.
重要歐洲私人珍藏

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