Petit vase en bronze patiné Chine, dynastie Qing, marque et époque Yongzheng (1723-1735)

piriforme, le col et le pied évasés, les anses représentant des têtes d'éléphants, marque Yongzheng à quatre caractères en cachet à la base

A few tiny nicks and dents around the foot and mouth rim, very minor pitting in areas to the body, some wear to the patina beneath the base, but overall in good condition. The actual colour is a fraction less red that on the catalogue illustration.
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Later bronze vessels with a Yongzheng reign mark and of the period are rare, although a baluster form vase bearing a six-character Yongzheng mark on the base was included in the exhibition China's Renaissance in Bronze. The Robert H. Clague Collection of Later Chinese Bronzes 1100-1900, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, 1994, cat. no. 37. The present vase represents Yongzheng antiquarism at its peak, bringing the shape and proportions of the standard zun form vase, found mainly in contemporary ceramics, to bronze designs. For the inspiration see a Yongzheng celadon-glazed zun vase with handles illustrated in Kangxi. Yongzheng. Qianlong. Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1989, pl. 105, together with another related zun vase covered in flambe-glaze, pl. 109, also of the Yongzheng period.