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

The chilong vase: 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, Pittsburgh, cat. no. 92.

《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）