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Auction archive: Lot number 172

A massive archaic bronze ritual wine vessel and cover (hu) Spring and Autumn period

Estimate
US$180,000 - US$250,000
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 172

A massive archaic bronze ritual wine vessel and cover (hu) Spring and Autumn period

Estimate
US$180,000 - US$250,000
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

A massive archaic bronze ritual wine vessel and cover (hu) Spring and Autumn period the compressed pear-shaped body supported on a tall spreading foot, crisply cast on a leiwen ground with two undulating wave bands enclosing detached C-scrolls and O-shapes around the lower bulging body, below a smaller register of stylized dragons and another wave band at the neck, interrupted by a pair of projecting loop handles issuing from reticulated bovine masks, all above three rows of overlapping pendant lappets around the pierced foot, the flattened cover cast with a zoomorphic band around the rim, surmounted by eight everted reticulated lappets encircling a large central medallion of entwining serpents enclosed by a sawtooth border, the surface with a smooth gray patina with light malachite encrustation (2) 24 1/8 in., 61.4 cm

Auction archive: Lot number 172
Auction:
Datum:
18 Sep 2007
Auction house:
Sotheby's
New York
Beschreibung:

A massive archaic bronze ritual wine vessel and cover (hu) Spring and Autumn period the compressed pear-shaped body supported on a tall spreading foot, crisply cast on a leiwen ground with two undulating wave bands enclosing detached C-scrolls and O-shapes around the lower bulging body, below a smaller register of stylized dragons and another wave band at the neck, interrupted by a pair of projecting loop handles issuing from reticulated bovine masks, all above three rows of overlapping pendant lappets around the pierced foot, the flattened cover cast with a zoomorphic band around the rim, surmounted by eight everted reticulated lappets encircling a large central medallion of entwining serpents enclosed by a sawtooth border, the surface with a smooth gray patina with light malachite encrustation (2) 24 1/8 in., 61.4 cm

Auction archive: Lot number 172
Auction:
Datum:
18 Sep 2007
Auction house:
Sotheby's
New York
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