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A LARGE ARCHAIC BRONZE 'TAOTIE MASK' CHAMFRON LATE SHANG / WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY
Estimate
300,000 - 400,000 HKD
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Description
powerfully cast with a mythical beast mask above an elongated cylindrical segment, the mask with beady eyes below thick eyebrows and a well rendered snout, the encrusted patina of a variegated green colour, wood stand
Provenance
Mathias Komor, New York.
Collection of Mr and Mrs Richard C. Bull, Villanova, Pennsylvania.
Sotheby’s New York, 6th December 1983, lot 34.
Collection of Mr and Mrs Richard C. Bull, Villanova, Pennsylvania.
Sotheby’s New York, 6th December 1983, lot 34.
Exhibited
Arts of the Chou Dynasty, Stanford University Museum, Stanford, 1958, no. 33.
University Museum, Philadelphia, 1959.
University Museum, Philadelphia, 1959.
Catalogue Note
For a near identical example, possibly the pair, from the collection of J. L. Davis. see Steven D. Owyoung, Ancient Chinese Bronzes in The Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, 1997, no. 29.