PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE AND IMPORTANT GOLD, SILVER AND GLASS-EMBELLISHED BRONZE VESSEL (FANG HU), WARRING STATES PERIOD, 4TH / 3RD CENTURY BC
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September 23, 08:35 PM GMT
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2,500,000 - 3,500,000 USD
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AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE AND IMPORTANT GOLD, SILVER AND GLASS-EMBELLISHED BRONZE VESSEL (FANG HU)
WARRING STATES PERIOD, 4TH / 3RD CENTURY BC
戰國 公元前四 / 三世紀 青銅錯金銀嵌琉璃乳釘紋方壺
of square section, set atop a straight foot with the swelling belly rising to a slightly flaring neck and surmounted by a slightly domed cover set with four bird-shaped finials, each side of the vessel decorated with a complex design of diamond-shaped glass plaques set into cast recesses of conforming shape, surrounded by wide bands of enlaced lines and volutes inlaid in silver, with raised circular bosses embellished with gold-sheet set at regular intervals, on two sides the shoulder set with an animal mask handle suspending a loose ring, with glass plaque and silver inlay, and raised bosses, the dark brown patina with green malachite encrustation (2)
Height 13¾ in., 35.1 cm
Collection of Adolphe (1871-1949) and Suzanne (1874-1949) Stoclet, and thence by descent.
European Private Collection.
來源
Adolphe (1871-1949) 及 Suzanne (1874-1949) Stoclet 伉儷收藏，此後家族傳承
歐洲私人收藏
International Exhibition of Chinese Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1935, cat. no. 406.
展覽
《中國藝術國際展覽會》，皇家藝術學院，倫敦，1935年，編號406
Albert J. Koop, Early Chinese Bronzes, London, 1924, pl. 103 A.
C.G. Seligman & H.C. Beck, ‘Far Eastern Glass: Some Western Origins’, The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities Stockholm Bulletin, no. 10, 1938, pp. 1-64, pl. X.
出版
Albert J. Koop，《Early Chinese Bronzes》，倫敦，1924年，圖版103A
C.G. Seligman 及 H.C. Beck，〈Far Eastern Glass: Some Western Origins〉，《The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities Stockholm Bulletin》，號10，1938年，頁1-64，圖版X