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A BRONZE ELLIPTICAL BOWL AND COVER
- LATE SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD, 6TH CENTURY BC

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A BRONZE ELLIPTICAL BOWL AND COVER
LATE SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD, 6TH CENTURY BC
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    $6,000 - $8,000

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Sale 2405
Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Including Property from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections
25 March 2010
New York, Rockefeller Plaza





Lot Description

A BRONZE ELLIPTICAL BOWL AND COVER
LATE SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD, 6TH CENTURY BC
The body rising from a flat base, flat-cast at the shoulder and again on the cover with a band of intertwined dragons, the bodies alternately filled with feathers or granulation, with petal-shaped panels filled with intertwined serpents reserved on a granulated ground pendent from the band on the bowl, which is also applied with a pair of loop handles inset on top with malachite inlay, the cover with four later-added, recumbent mythical beasts alternating with engraved stags
7½ in. (19 cm.) long

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Provenance

Acquired prior to 1977.

Literature

J. So, Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, 1995, pp. 302-5, no. 58.

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