清 銅瓶三件

the smallest pear-shaped and with wire-inlaid floral decoration; the second of bottle-form with a bulbous mouth, cast with a high-relief chilong coiled around the neck, the third, possibly Japanese, also bottle-form, the globular body rising to a tall, slender neck and everted rim, shallow cast to either side with a shaped reserve of a lady (3)

Stephen Alexander Hunter (1851-1923) 收藏，1879-1891年間於中國傳道時入藏，後家族傳承

《Catalogue of Chinese and Japanese Curios Collected by the Rev. S.A. Hunter, L. L. D., Missionary to China: Loan Exhibition at The South Side Presbyterian Church》，1895年10月28日-11月2日，匹茲堡，編號 92 （螭龍瓶）