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Lot 510*
A squat guan-shaped ovoid vase By Hata Zoroku II (active Taisho Period), dated 1913
11 May 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street£1,300 - £1,800
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By Hata Zoroku II (active Taisho Period), dated 1913
Based upon the Chinese late Shang Dynasty bronze prototype, cast in low relief with lappets enclosing archaic motifs over an incised leiwen ground; the shoulder moulded in relief with three ram-heads; the base signed in tensho script Zoroku; with double tomobako, the inside of the inner lid titled, dated and signed by the artist Taisho mizunoto-ushi kaheizuki, Heian, Zoroku seizo (in December of Taisho 2 [1913], in Kyoto, made by Zoroku) with two seals. 21cm (8¼in) high. (3).
Based upon the Chinese late Shang Dynasty bronze prototype, cast in low relief with lappets enclosing archaic motifs over an incised leiwen ground; the shoulder moulded in relief with three ram-heads; the base signed in tensho script Zoroku; with double tomobako, the inside of the inner lid titled, dated and signed by the artist Taisho mizunoto-ushi kaheizuki, Heian, Zoroku seizo (in December of Taisho 2 [1913], in Kyoto, made by Zoroku) with two seals. 21cm (8¼in) high. (3).
Footnotes
団夔龍文銅壺 二代秦蔵六 大正2年(1913年)
























