A LARGE IMPERIAL GILT-BRONZE ARCHAISTIC RITUAL CHIME, BIANZHONG DATED KANGXI MARK AND OF THE PERIOD The bell is boldly cast suspended from a double-headed dragon handle, the barrel-shaped body is crisply decorated with four panels of alternating bosses and trigrams, divided by two panels of angular scrollwork dragons beneath a ruyi -head and two inscribed panels, one with Kangxi wushisi nian zhi , 'Made in the Fifty-Fourth year of Kangxi', corresponding to 1716, the opposing side inscribed with two-characters wu she 12 1/2 in. (31.5 cm.) high
A LARGE IMPERIAL GILT-BRONZE ARCHAISTIC RITUAL CHIME, BIANZHONG DATED KANGXI MARK AND OF THE PERIOD The bell is boldly cast suspended from a double-headed dragon handle, the barrel-shaped body is crisply decorated with four panels of alternating bosses and trigrams, divided by two panels of angular scrollwork dragons beneath a ruyi -head and two inscribed panels, one with Kangxi wushisi nian zhi , 'Made in the Fifty-Fourth year of Kangxi', corresponding to 1716, the opposing side inscribed with two-characters wu she 12 1/2 in. (31.5 cm.) high
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