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Lot 137
A bronze tripod vessel, lei Spring and Autumn Period
13 May 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £11,040 inc. premium
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Spring and Autumn Period
Raised on three short mythical beast feet, the upper body cast around the sides with radiating ribs, set to either side with a pair of loop handles surmounted by spiral-horned masks, rising to a short, cylindrical neck with flattened, everted rim.
24.8cm (9¾in) high
Raised on three short mythical beast feet, the upper body cast around the sides with radiating ribs, set to either side with a pair of loop handles surmounted by spiral-horned masks, rising to a short, cylindrical neck with flattened, everted rim.
24.8cm (9¾in) high
Footnotes
Provenance: Victoria Lindström, Stockholm, Sweden in the 1950s
A Swedish family collection and thence by descent














