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Important Archaic Bronzes from the MacLean Collection

An archaic bronze wine vessel and cover (Hu), Eastern Zhou dynasty, Warring States period | 東周 戰國 青銅卷龍紋鋪首耳壺

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September 22, 04:06 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

An archaic bronze wine vessel and cover (Hu)

Eastern Zhou dynasty, Warring States period

東周 戰國 青銅卷龍紋鋪首耳壺


the pear-shaped body with four registers of repeating pairs of abstracted snake-dragons, each snake-dragon with a finely patterned S-curved body rising and falling in varying levels of relief and centered by a raised boss, recessed bands dividing each register, the neck with geometric cicada lappets rising from a chevron-and-spiral band and set with a pair of beast-mask handles, each suspending a loose ring connected by a loop-and-bar chain to an arched handle with dragon-head terminals, the domed cover cast with concentric bands of abstract motifs and set with a pair of upright loops, all supported on a straight foot cast with a braided band (2)


Height 11 in., 27.9 cm

Acquired in Hong Kong, 1994.


來源

1994年購於香港

Richard A. Pegg and Zhang Lidong, The MacLean Collection: Chinese Ritual Bronzes, Chicago, 2010, pl. 53.


出版

彭銳查及張立東,《The MacLean Collection: Chinese Ritual Bronzes》,芝加哥,2010年,圖版53

For other hu and covers cast with this form and decoration, see one published in Chen Peifen, Xia Shang Zhou qingtongqi yanjiu: Dong Zhou pian, xia [Study of bronzes of the Xia, Shang, and Zhou periods: Eastern Zhou, vol. 2], Shanghai, 2004, pl. 615; another published in Eleanor von Erdberg, 'Chinese Bronzes from the Collection of Chester Dale and Dolly Carter', Artibus Asiae Supplementum, vol. 35, 1978, pl. 54; and a third from the Brandt Collection, sold in our London rooms, 10th July 1979, lot 5.