Important Chinese Art
Important Chinese Art
Important Archaic Bronzes from the MacLean Collection
Auction Closed
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
出版
彭銳查及張立東,《The MacLean Collection: Chinese Ritual Bronzes》,芝加哥,2010年,圖版53