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AN ARCHAIC BRONZE WINE VESSEL, GU,
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AN ARCHAIC BRONZE WINE VESSEL, GU
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
Oct 9, 2020
Sotheby'sHong KongMonochrome II58
$****** - ******
AN ARCHAIC BRONZE WINE VESSEL, GU
Artwork Description
Category

other

Dimensions

32 cm (12.6 in)

Provenance

Yamanaka & Co., Ltd.

Collection of Mrs Christian R. Holmes (1871-1941).

Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 14th/15th November 1963, lot 258.

Mayuyama & Co., Ltd, Tokyo.

Hirano Kotoken, Tokyo.

Literature

Umehara Sueji, Shina Kodo Seika/Selected Relics of Ancient Chinese Bronzes from Collections in Europe and America, vol. 1, Osaka, 1933, cat. no. 53.

Selected Ancient Chinese Bronzes from the Collection of Mrs Christian R. Holmes, n.d.

Noel Barnard and Cheung Kwong-Yue, Rubbings and Hand Copies of Bronze Inscriptions in Chinese, Japanese, European, American, and Australasian Collections, Taipei, 1978, vol. 7, no. 1080.

Description

the elegantly curved slender vessel resting on a tall foot-ring, crisply cast on the middle and lower sections with fine zoomorphic masks with prominent eyes, ears, horns centred on notched flanges, against a ground of intricate leiwen spiral, all below the tall trumpet neck decorated with shield blades filled with further masks rising from a band of angular serpents, the inner foot with an inscription probably reading Ya niu ding gu, the inner foot with an inscription probably reading Ya ding gu, wood stand and Japanese wood box

AN ARCHAIC BRONZE WINE VESSEL, GU by Anonymous

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AN ARCHAIC BRONZE WINE VESSEL, GU

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Last recorded sale at Sotheby's, Hong Kong (09 Oct 2020)
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