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A set of four rare gilt-bronze mountain-form weights, Han dynasty

Auction Closed

March 19, 05:41 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

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Description

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Height 2⅛ in., 5.5 cm

Galerie Christian Deydier, Paris.

Rituels pour l’éternité, Christian Deydier / Oriental Bronzes Ltd., Paris and London, 2001, cat. no. 18.

Han dynasty gilt-bronze weights depicting mythical animals amidst mysterious mountain are rare. See for a similar weight of this type, exhibited in A Bronze Menagerie, Mat Weight of Early China, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 2006, cat. no. 10.