- 713
A BRONZE ARCHAISTIC HU-FORM VASE SONG / YUAN DYNASTY
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description
- bronze
of oval section supported on a splayed foot, the neck flanked by a pair of tubular lug handles, decorated with bands of leiwen, archaistic kuilong, taotie and geometric patterns, the base chased with three characters reading xian shiyi
Provenance
Sydney L. Moss, London.
Catalogue Note
For two similar examples dated Southern Song to Yuan, and a discussion on these types of vessels, see Sydney L. Moss, The Second Bronze Age: Later Chinese Metalwork, London, 1991, nos. 72 and 73. Another similar example from the collection of Ulrich Hausmann was sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 8th October 2014, lot 3384.