Chinese Art through the Eye of Sakamoto Gorō: A Selection I

Chinese Art through the Eye of Sakamoto Gorō: A Selection I

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A bronze ritual vessel, pou, Western Zhou dynasty|西周 青銅羊首瓿

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October 29, 05:04 AM GMT

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400,000 - 800,000 HKD

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A bronze ritual vessel, pou,

Western Zhou dynasty

西周 青銅羊首瓿


the compressed globular form rising from a tall splayed foot to a short tapering neck surmounted by a wide flaring mouth, the central band cast with three taotie masks each centered by a narrow flange in low relief, below a band of confronting kuilong divided by three ram masks cast in relief, the base further encircled by a band of kuilong, all against a leiwen ground


d. 34.5 cm

Hayashi Minao and Higuchi Takayasu, Fugendo Sakamoto Goro Chugoku seidoki seisho [Ancient Chinese Bronzes in the Fugendo Sakamoto Goro Collection], Tokyo, 2002, cat. no. 79.


林巳奈夫及樋口隆康,《不言堂坂本五郎中國青銅器清賞》,東京,2002年,編號79