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Auction archive: Lot number 1532

A RARE LARGE BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, LEI

Estimate
US$200,000 - US$300,000
Price realised:
US$242,500
Auction archive: Lot number 1532

A RARE LARGE BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, LEI

Estimate
US$200,000 - US$300,000
Price realised:
US$242,500
Beschreibung:

A RARE LARGE BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, LEI
EARLY SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD, 8TH-7TH CENTURY BC
A RARE LARGE BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, LEI EARLY SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD, 8TH-7TH CENTURY BC Flat-cast with six bands of interlocked horned dragons with a single boss for the eye, alternating with bands of overlapping scale pattern and sawtooth bands with small C-scrolls, all below the waisted neck and widely everted rim, with a pair of handles formed by horned dragons with curved fangs emerging from the mouths of dragon-fish 17 7/8 in. (45.4 cm.) across handles, two Japanese wood boxes, one inscribed by Shushin in 1924

Auction archive: Lot number 1532
Auction:
Datum:
22 Mar 2012 - 23 Mar 2012
Auction house:
Christie's
22-23 March 2012, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

A RARE LARGE BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, LEI
EARLY SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD, 8TH-7TH CENTURY BC
A RARE LARGE BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, LEI EARLY SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD, 8TH-7TH CENTURY BC Flat-cast with six bands of interlocked horned dragons with a single boss for the eye, alternating with bands of overlapping scale pattern and sawtooth bands with small C-scrolls, all below the waisted neck and widely everted rim, with a pair of handles formed by horned dragons with curved fangs emerging from the mouths of dragon-fish 17 7/8 in. (45.4 cm.) across handles, two Japanese wood boxes, one inscribed by Shushin in 1924

Auction archive: Lot number 1532
Auction:
Datum:
22 Mar 2012 - 23 Mar 2012
Auction house:
Christie's
22-23 March 2012, New York, Rockefeller Center
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